Never understood why anyone thought a vacuum would be better if connected to the internet especially sending pictures of your household and people in it upstream.
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I think its a boomer problem... Like most problems. Why they're OK with cameras being on everything is beyond me. Why my boomer relatives add hundreds of pictures to telegram groups that I don't look at __every week__ is beyond me.
younger generation seems more OK with letting it all hang out and blabbing about everything than older. I am a boomer and I don't do that stuff. I know many others that don't either and think it is nuts.
I guess its a selection bias then. The boomers in my tribe seem to be reversed with the younger people.
It is certainly more likely that boomers you find on here are likely to be more privacy aware and more tech savvy. But many I know that are not techie simply grew up in a time where far more privacy was just the norm before much of the tech that can be used for such deep surveillance and profiling existed. They often have a hard time believing it when I share and outline of the many ways those assumtions are not at all the default case today. Many get overwhelmed and retreat to helplessness or "I have nothing to hide". That is not limited to older people of course.
Keep teaching, they need to hear it