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Company bricks $300 vacuum when owner blocks it from spying

Nov 06, 2025
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An engineer named Harishankar N. got curious about his iLife A11 smart vacuum and discovered it was secretly mapping his home and sending that data to China. The device had been using Google Cartographer to build a detailed 3D map of his home and dutifully transmitting every architectural detail to its manufacturers. W…

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