<story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themitigating</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>orra</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t believe you&amp;#x27;ve been downvoted. HN isn&amp;#x27;t homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it&amp;#x27;s done by a technology company.</text></item><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&amp;#x27;s not actually consent.&lt;p&gt;This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yjftsjthsd-h</author><text>&amp;gt; 2. There&amp;#x27;s too much technology in modern products (cars, tv, etc)&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Bad&lt;/i&gt; technology. Nobody would object to smarter cars with usable controls that didn&amp;#x27;t spy on you and have security holes. People, even here, would &lt;i&gt;love&lt;/i&gt; smart TVs if they started as fast as the dumb ones, didn&amp;#x27;t have ads, didn&amp;#x27;t spy on you, and were generally actually in the user&amp;#x27;s control. People aren&amp;#x27;t against tech, they&amp;#x27;re against awful tech that&amp;#x27;s a straight downgrade from what came before.&lt;p&gt;Actually, this goes for the rest of your points, not just 2.</text></comment>
<story><title>Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook</title><url>https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-irobot-robot-vacuum-beta-product-testers-consent-agreement-misled/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>themitigating</author><text>[flagged]</text></item><item><author>orra</author><text>Can&amp;#x27;t believe you&amp;#x27;ve been downvoted. HN isn&amp;#x27;t homogonous, but too often has apologists for immoral and illegal behaviour, provided it&amp;#x27;s done by a technology company.</text></item><item><author>WantonQuantum</author><text>I doubt they got consent from everybody in the house - so that&amp;#x27;s not actually consent.&lt;p&gt;This whole thing is disgusting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ballenf</author><text>How are 3-5 &amp;#x27;anti-tech&amp;#x27;?&lt;p&gt;3. Tech shouldn&amp;#x27;t imply or require privacy compromises.&lt;p&gt;4. Piracy tools often drive innovation and technological progress. (Not to mention would we have subscription music services or even Netflix&amp;#x27;s non-DVD-by-mail business without the market pressure from piracy? Would they cost more?)&lt;p&gt;5. How does a position or preference on a business model imply pro- or anti-tech?&lt;p&gt;And even #2 doesn&amp;#x27;t necessarily imply an anti-tech stance. I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s anti-tech to resist putting computers in toasters, for example. The overuse of tech can be a step backwards and hurt overall technological progress, imho.&lt;p&gt;Not sure what #1 means.</text></comment>