cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/enshittification@lemmy.world/p/1887579/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days
cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/enshittification@lemmy.world/p/1887579/man-discovers-his-parents-coffee-machine-used-1tb-of-data-in-10-days
IoT is the stupidest waste of technology
IoT could be great, but can’t be created by capitalism. If you hand e.g. Town Planning to the Ku Klux Klan and they just use it to screw over black people, that doesn’t mean town planning is bad, it means the KKK are bad and shouldn’t be trusted with jack shit.
The problem with the IoT is that the convenience/feature gains are marginal and commodifiable, whereas the gains from selling data are massive and direct to the manufacturer. Also there’s every incentive to lock down your ecosystem and avoid compatibility with competitors, and there’s no incentive to invest in security either.
You are wrong.
IoT is an invasion of privacy no matter who use it.
It can only be malevolent because what else will a coffee machine(or anything else for that matter) do on the internet but send data from your home to someone that is not you.
We have all lost our collective minds when it comes to relinquishing our rights to privacy.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
I have a Zigbee setup that is technically IoT and I don’t think my local Home Assistant server is invading my privacy. I will agree for cloud based setups though.