Everyone’s Worst Fears About the Roomba Have Come True

By Colette Bennett Read this before you buy a robot vacuum of any kind. Between constant tracking of our internet activity, the “always listening” speakers in our homes and the smartphones glued to our hands at all (OK, most) times we’re awake, it’s understandable that nervous murmurs of George Orwell’s “1984” often come up in conversation these days. Still, there’s a precarious balance between which data about ourselves we’re willing to give away in return for the convenience of asking a device to jot down our grocery lists or tell us the weather. The tech keeps getting smarter at a seemingly…

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