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Roomba maps homes — that the dimensions between furniture and other items would be valuable to some of the major players battling to control the intelligent home. But, iRobot «has not had any conversations with other companies about selling data,» said Colin Angle, the organization's CEO. The Dangers of Cloud Storage Data accumulated by smart appliances «is not safe if it's sent off to the cloud,» said Michael Patterson, CEO of Plixer. It signifies a danger to national security and the integrity of associations, Scott cautioned. Reaping the Rewards Amazon's Echo and Google's Home voice-activated speakers monitor and collect information about users via smart home appliances and other products, as do manufacturers of TVs. Consumers that want to keep their information secure should not invest in appliances that are Internet-capable, Patterson cautioned. «No IoT device is safe from a data compromise.» Insert artificial intelligence, big data calculations and machine learning into the combination, along with the poor guys can launch «massive hyperfocused campaigns against specific high-value sensitive targets,» he pointed out. «Adversaries can craft personalized social engineering lures related to targets' exploring patterns, interests, profession and vices, as an example, and therefore bypass the cybersecurity and cyber-hygiene reflexes that typically thwart 86 percent of societal engineering applications.» But from conversations with device manufacturers and cybersecurity experts, «data collected by smart home devices will not be available to just any third party,» IHS Markit's Kozak told TechNewsWorld. Data collection is commonplace, Kozak pointed out. Reward cards, gym smartphones accumulate user information and trackers. «iRobot is committed to the security of our customers' information, which we consider very seriously,» he said. «We build security directly into the product creation process from the beginning, at the period of ideation.» Both the Roomba robots and iRobot's network architecture «are continually reviewed by multiple third party security agencies,» Angle pointed out. At the moment, anyone can gather an quantity of information on nearly anyone else by simply scouring free search engines on the Web. Add in information accumulated by smart home appliances and smart gadgets, and data on consumers' electricity consumption patterns gathered by smart meters, and it's possible to get a very granular picture of what's going on in someone's home. Additionally, content — read, manufacturers of smart devices who gather information «don't act on the data, and even more suggest they… aggregate it,» he mentioned. This trend could lead to serious threats to consumers' privacy and security. Hackers have accessed baby monitors, as an example. Further, the United States National Security Agency has made no bones about its willingness to exploit on the data made available from appliances and the Internet of Things. Purchases of smart appliances have been on the rise, and voice-activated devices — led by Amazon's Echo line — have been riding the wave. IRobot addresses customer IoT «with the fundamental principles of security: secure data at rest, secure data in transit, secure execution, and secure updates,» he said. Smart home appliances and gadgets store the data they gather in the cloud, which is not inviolate. The Swedish government recently faced an upheaval following the discovery that all Swedish citizens' information had been leaked after it had been transferred to a cloud run by IBM, a company. The authorities replaced two of its own ministers in an effort to quell the resulting uproar. The current rumor that iRobot had participated in talks with Apple, Amazon and Google parent Alphabet to market the information its Roomba vacuum cleaner gathers caused widespread privacy concerns. «The widespread collection, insecure storage, negligent exchange, and irresponsible usage of consumer metadata poses a direct and hyper-evolving threat to consumers, government officials, and critical infrastructure owners and operators,» he told TechNewsWorld. «The ease with which an attacker can harvest and collect demographic and psychographic data on targets is astounding,» said James Scott, senior fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology. Malware preventative technologies from security providers «are not a surefire defense against targeted attacks,» he told TechNewsWorld. «Nothing short of unplugging from the Internet can keep your data safe.» Data collection is supposed to provide an additional revenue stream for the maker or service provider, as well as improve the user's expertise, stated Blake Kozak, chief analyst at IHS Markit. That is the rumor that iRobot was talking sale of the information to a third party alarmed consumer privacy advocates. «The company will never violate customer trust by selling or misusing customer-related data, including data collected by our connected products,» Angle highlighted.