> Why do you care what data Amazon has about my living space? If you don't like it don't by a Roomba.
How many people have bought Roombas without knowing they would be sold to Amazon in the future? A quick search came up with 40 million units sold so far. Will Amazon offer a full refund to every person who doesn't want their data with Amazon? Or will they offer the option to completely stay off of Amazons systems, keeping the existing Roomba systems running?
If not, do you expect people to somehow accurately predict the future when making purchasing decisions?
I don't think people can predict what will happen to the products they buy in the future. But I do think people can choose to use or not use the products they buy based on new information. And my point is not that this is a good or bad thing (for the record I think it's bad but so is the company going out of business), just that more often than not the loudest consumer advocates seem to have incredibly dim views of consumers themselves. It must be the case that consumers don't know or don't understand the tradeoffs they are making, rather than that consumers simply place a lower value on "privacy".
Is you having the option to choose lower privacy worth 40 million people having lower privacy? That seems to be the dichotomy here - consumer advocates don't just care about new buyers.
How many people have bought Roombas without knowing they would be sold to Amazon in the future? A quick search came up with 40 million units sold so far. Will Amazon offer a full refund to every person who doesn't want their data with Amazon? Or will they offer the option to completely stay off of Amazons systems, keeping the existing Roomba systems running?
If not, do you expect people to somehow accurately predict the future when making purchasing decisions?