{"id":6693,"date":"2022-08-16T03:37:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/ask-all-the-time-why-do-i-need-this-how-to-stop-your-vacuum-from-spying-on-you\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T03:37:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:37:48","slug":"ask-all-the-time-why-do-i-need-this-how-to-stop-your-vacuum-from-spying-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/ask-all-the-time-why-do-i-need-this-how-to-stop-your-vacuum-from-spying-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ask all the time: why do I need this?\u2019 How to stop your vacuum from spying on you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re not gadget-obsessed, the odds are you\u2019ve got at least one smart device at home. So how do you limit the internet of things from listening in?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This month, Amazon inked a deal to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/amazon-acquire-roomba-maker-irobot-about-17-billion-2022-08-05\/\">acquire smart vacuum company iRobot<\/a> \u2013 the makers of Roomba \u2013 for a tidy US$1.7bn. As some see it, if the purchase goes through, that should worry us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all about the data,\u201d says David Vaile from the Australian Privacy Foundation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/16\/ask-all-the-time-why-do-i-need-this-how-to-stop-your-vacuum-from-spying-on-you\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/8ad6c4fd8f8d32636fa206879bdf78bd28f5d796\/763_1004_7429_4460\/master\/7429.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=feaa610f538338630fbddb0aa5f7b11c\" title=\"\u2018Ask all the time: why do I need this?\u2019 How to stop your vacuum from spying on you\" \/>Even if you\u2019re not gadget-obsessed, the odds are you\u2019ve got at least one smart device at home. So how do you limit the internet of things from listening in?<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nThis month, Amazon inked a deal to acquire smart vacuum company iRobot \u2013 the makers of Roomba \u2013 for a tidy US$1.7bn. As some see it, if the purchase goes through, that should worry us.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s all about the data,\u201d says David Vaile from the Australian Privacy Foundation. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re not gadget-obsessed, the odds are you\u2019ve got at least one smart device at home. So how do you limit the internet of things from listening in? Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email This month, Amazon inked a deal to acquire smart vacuum company iRobot \u2013 the makers of Roomba \u2013 for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/16\/ask-all-the-time-why-do-i-need-this-how-to-stop-your-vacuum-from-spying-on-you\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Ask all the time: why do I need this?\u2019 How to stop your vacuum from spying on you<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}