Tell Your Roomba to Stop Sharing a Map of Your Home UpdatedThe Roomba 9. Series offers a Clean Map Report, which maps your home as it vacuums, improving its movement and telling you how well it cleaned. But to get that map, according to customer service reps, you have to share it with Roombas creator i. Robot. And that gives i. Robot permission to giveor sellyour map. Which is exactly what i. Robot CEO Colin Angle plans to do, as he told Reuters this week Angle told Reuters that i. Robot, which made Roomba compatible with Amazons Alexa voice assistant in March, could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three in the next couple of years. The Big Three are Amazon, Apple, or Google, all of which desperately want more customer data, and all of which make millions of dollars from targeted advertising. As Gizmodo reports, i. Robots privacy policy could be interpreted to give the company permission to sell your data without asking you. Robots Twitter account has been running damage control with upset customers, replying with this assurance from Angle So according to Angle, i. Robot will ask permission before sharing your info with another party. Of course, if you ever opted into Clean Map Reports, you technically already gave i. Robot that permission. Its just another of the many ways consumers are unknowingly giving up their privacy. Thanks to the NSA, everyone all of a sudden cares about their privacy more than they used to. ButRead more Read. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. Gmail is email thats intuitive, efficient, and useful. GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. Top VIdeos. Warning Invalid argument supplied for foreach in srvusersserverpilotappsjujaitalypublicindex. For the time being, you can opt out of Clean Map Reports from your i. Robot HOME App, under More Settings Toggle Clean Map Report. Robot customer service isnt all on the same page about this news. While an online customer service rep directed me to the Twitter account and Angles statement, a phone rep confidently informed me that i. PLZud0/TkZ3BIU2gwI/AAAAAAAAANY/TzXb2FDTO1s/s1600/sx763.jpg' alt='Acer Update Decrypter Executive Summary' title='Acer Update Decrypter Executive Summary' />Robot would not sell data. When I read him Angles statement, he was caught off guard. If you already let your Roomba deliver a Clean Map Report to i. Robot, its unclear whether theres any way to retroactively revoke permission to sell that report. Last night, in a thrilling drama that entertains the sort of people who stay up late chatting on Twitter about Senate votes, three Republicans voted against their. Prison Break S05e01 Download. Ive reached out to i. Robot for clarification and will update with their reply. Update 5 1. 5 E. T., Jul 2. Robot PR responded with this statement To clarify, i. Robot has not formed any plans to sell data. Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots. Robot is committed to the absolute privacy of our customer related data, including data collected by our connected products. No data is sold to third parties. No data will be shared with third parties without the informed consent of our customers. If a customer had already signed upopted in, i. Robot will delete the data from our servers if a customer requests it. This is retroactive. Clean Map Reports are not shared with third parties. If a Roomba owner does not want to share data with a third party such as Amazon for example, to enable voice control from Amazon Alexa, the owner can simply disable the skill in the Amazon Alexa app. Update 6 P. M. E. T., Jul 2. 8 Reuters has amended their story to state that according to CEO Colin Angle, i. Robot may share for free with consumer consent, not sell its maps. Robot representatives stated, i. Robot does not sell customer data, and said future information sharing will only be conducted with customers explicit consent.