This Data Gathering Household Machine is Begging & Pleading for Legislation.

Your Roomba is mapping your house and collecting data. Let’s repeat, your Roomba is colelcting data about how to get around your house and what is in your house. 

Better yet, the company hasn’t asked you whether they can keep the data, store the data or sell the data. What retailer wouldn’t want to buy data that says you have no loveseat? or only 1 sad and lonely dining chair?

This type of private property data is screaming for legislation. Legislation about disclosure of the data, sale of the data, consent to store the data, and how protected is the Roomba from hackers?

USA Today | Your Roomba already maps your home. Now the CEO plans to sell that map.