Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

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Other submissions: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842679

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-... (this thread)

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842705

http://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-...

Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842822

https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/24/16021610/irobot-roomba-ho...

Roombas have been busy mapping our homes, and now that data could be up for sale

Other sources: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idUSKBN1A...

Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home

(Techmeme headline for the above: Roomba vacuum maker iRobot hopes to sell its users' floor plan data, seeking deals with Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet (I couldn't submit this Reuters source to HN).

Edit: formatting

Indeed, so this submission was first, but another submission got the attention, comments, and up-votes.

Fortune favours the lucky ...

I commiserate with your plight :P . I do think the points from upvotes are useful as proxy for the latent demand for newsworthy news on the part of members. As such, they should probably be split in some fashion (e.g. weighted).

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