Amazon’s Roomba Deal

[Pigeon]

Amazon’s Roomba Deal Is Really About Mapping Your Home. In buying iRobot, the e-commerce titan gets a data collection machine that comes with a vacuum.

Probably. Bet new ones will have a camera and microphone.

Slightly more terrifying, the maps also represent a wealth of data for marketers. The size of your house is a pretty good proxy for your wealth. A floor covered in toys means you likely have kids. A household without much furniture is a household to which you can try to sell more furniture. This is all useful intel for a company such as Amazon which, you may have noticed, is in the business of selling stuff.

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[Pigeon]

The Amendment people seem to forget that they often willing give up the 4th by things such as this.

Gun registration issues? Now they also know where you guns are located and how many.

Yeehaw

Round up the usual suspects. Get their Facebook and Roomba.