Dan's Brain

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet

Notes

  • photos of people leaked
    • various states of undress
    • underage children
    • uncensored faces
  • leaked by third party contract workers for data labeling
    • violation that is bound to happen when independent workers try to collaborate on the web to raise productivity
  • corporation says the robot owners signed the terms of service
    • of course these terms are vague on all the steps of data treatment
    • users should not only be able to read the terms but understand them
      • the complications of privacy are not easily understood by most people
    • weird phrasing and distinctions (no data selling \(\neq\) no data sharing)
  • corporations have the data treated by third parties to raise productivity
    • third party is not easily controlled
    • internal data treatment can be protected and controlled through NDAs and corporation policy
      • would be the most privacy-safe procedure
  • hacker found functionalities to upload data even in products of which terms of service only defined data treatment as local
    • should the corporation be blindly trusted?
  • corporations argue that facial data is necessary to develop AI tools to then automatically censor them in future data collection
    • facial data may not be strictly needed
    • silhouette data may be all that’s needed
    • synthetic data should be the norm, not user data
  • users are much more likely to accept data collection if a cute little robot is what’s collecting and treating the data, in reality the data gets treated by humans in third world countries often

Q/E/C