And it is that there is an important debate in the network with the theme of the vacuuming robot Roomba, in which it seems they wanted to sell the data of our homes to the highest bidder thanks to the information collected by these smart vacuum cleaners.
iRobot, which is the company in charge of manufacturing these smart vacuum cleaners, could have access to the data obtained at home from each of its clients, measurements of the house, rooms, corridors and other stored data, to "share" them with other companies so that they can adapt their products directly to increase their sales. After this, many have looked at the Amazon Echo, the Google Home or the most recent Apple HomePod to know what is done with the data that is recorded when interacting with them or even those obtained by the speaker itself.
And it is that the HomePod has the A8 chip integrated in addition to several sensors, which allows it to know and analyze the direction of the sound waves to better expand the audio. This means that at all times the speaker is able to recognize a room, its size, what It is similar to what the Roomba does but it is not the same.
Apple comes out warning that the data obtained by its HomePods with these sensors will not be a bargaining chip and obviously will not be sold to the highest bidder. This extra official statement was made by the Cupertino company itself after receiving an email from a user really concerned about it. Apple also said that the data that is stored in the HomePods does not leave it, so there is no need to worry about it but it does not clarify whether or not it would accept the data of the iRobot company for its own interests, something that most companies do nowadays.