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submitted 3 days ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

afaik the lidar data is crunched locally, then sent to the remote server for easy consumption

when those vacuums are flashed with valetudo, they can still make the map with lidar without internet connection

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Exactly. So it's pure surreptitious data exfiltration. They only reason they send the data back is because they can, and there is value for them.