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Cuando la prioridad número 1 es el dinero, todo pasa a ser secundario: educación, sanidad, ciencia, familia... Todo. Lo triste es que esto se sabe hace tiempo. Hay libros escritos hace 10 años o más sobre el fraude en peer-reviewed papers, resultados no reproducibles, autocitaciones o citaciones en comandita, etc.
Cita de: visillófilas pepitófagas en Julio 31, 2017, 01:39:14 amCuando la prioridad número 1 es el dinero, todo pasa a ser secundario: educación, sanidad, ciencia, familia... Todo. Lo triste es que esto se sabe hace tiempo. Hay libros escritos hace 10 años o más sobre el fraude en peer-reviewed papers, resultados no reproducibles, autocitaciones o citaciones en comandita, etc.Lo llevo viendo mucho tiempo, y últimamente casi todos los días.
The Roomba is generally regarded as a cute little robot friend that no one but dogs would consider to be a potential menace. But for the last couple of years, the robovacs have been quietly mapping homes to maximize efficiency. Now, the device’s makers plan to sell that data to smart home device manufacturers, turning the friendly robot into a creeping, creepy little spy.
While it may seem like the information that a Roomba could gather is minimal, there’s a lot to be gleaned from the maps it’s constantly updating. It knows the floor plan of your home, the basic shape of everything on your floor, what areas require the most maintenance, and how often you require cleaning cycles, along with many other data points. And, according to Reuters, that data is the future of its business strategy:Citar“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that the user has allowed to be shared,” said [iRobot CEO Colin] Angle.[...]Angle told Reuters that iRobot, which made Roomba compatible with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant in March, could reach a deal to sell its maps to one or more of the Big Three in the next couple of years.If a company like Amazon, for example, wanted to improve its Echo smart speaker, the Roomba’s mapping info could certainly help out. Spatial mapping could improve audio performance by taking advantage of the room’s acoustics. Do you have a large room that’s practically empty? Targeted furniture ads might be quite effective. The laser and camera sensors would paint a nice portrait for lighting needs that would factor into smart lights that adjust in real time. Smart AC units could better control airflow. And additional sensors added in the future would gather even more data from this live-in double agent. And while Amazon seems like an obvious buyer—the kind that would pay huge money to shut out its competitors—don’t forget that Apple has its Siri speaker coming and it has a lot of catching up to do. The kind of data that iRobot is offering would give any developer a huge opportunity to fine tune the experience.Maybe that doesn’t unnerve you, but it probably should. This is all part of the larger quest for a few major companies to hoover up every bit of data about you that they can. Now, they want to know all about your living space. Going through the iRobot terms of service, you can see just how much data is already being collected on a daily basis just by clicking like on a Facebook page or visiting a corporate website. And that data will likely be just as insecure tomorrow as it is today.The question for iRobot and other manufacturers who are working with robovacs that use mapping is: Will users reject their product in favor of cheaper devices that offer more privacy? Angle doesn’t think that will be a problem. He tells Reuters that user data won’t be sold without permission and he thinks most people will want to take advantage of the greater functionality.The iRobot Home app does clearly inform users that they are capable of turning off the cloud sharing functions on their Roomba. But the actual terms of service document is written in typically convoluted legal language. The privacy policy frames most data collection as something that will just make your device better and improve overall user experience. A section of the policy on sharing personal information with third parties bullet points out the situations in which iRobot could share this data.At a glance it might seem like there’s only a narrow set of circumstances for third parties to get ahold of your info, but in reality, these guidelines give the company tons of freedom. It can share your data internally, with subsidiaries, third party vendors, and the government upon request. While a section about sharing data with third parties for marketing purposes specifies that the user must give consent, there’s this separate bullet point below that:Citar[We may share your personal information with] other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger, sale of all or a portion of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or related or similar proceeding.Depending on a court’s interpretation of that language, it would appear that your consent isn’t necessarily required if iRobot wanted to sell its user data in bulk to Apple. That doesn’t mean it would go forward with such a transaction without notifying users first. Dyson, a high-end Roomba competitor, does a better job of giving users a quick breakdown of what’s in its privacy policy. But the particulars aren’t all that different than what iRobot sets out in its agreement. Dyson does promise to never “sell your personal information to anyone and only share it as outlined in this privacy policy or when you ask us to.” Of course, there’s still some wiggle room in there and Dyson also has agreements to interact with third party devices like the Amazon Echo. And that’s the thing. If a company isn’t using simultaneous localization and mapping (or SLAM, as the mapping technology used by Roomba and its competitors is known), their robovac is probably inferior. If a company is making a robovac that uses the advanced tech, big data is the business model it should be thinking about. People will likely click “agree” to whatever terms are put in front of them. Hell, I never considered buying a Roomba until I started writing this article and thought about how much neater my apartment would be if I had one. Convenience trumps privacy every time. Just remember that the Roomba knows what room your child is in, it’s the one where it bumps into all the toys on the floor.[Reuters]
“There’s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can deliver once you have a rich map of the home that the user has allowed to be shared,” said [iRobot CEO Colin] Angle.
[We may share your personal information with] other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger, sale of all or a portion of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or related or similar proceeding.Depending on a court’s interpretation of that language, it would appear that your consent isn’t necessarily required if iRobot wanted to sell its user data in bulk to Apple. That doesn’t mean it would go forward with such a transaction without notifying users first.
https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-your-home-to-t-1797187829Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder
Yo que hago investigación en Matemáticas puras, me siento bastante afortunado de que en ésos dominios no haya llegado (aún) tal grado de podredumbre. Sí que es cierto, sin embargo, que se publican muchos resultados que apenas contienen variaciones sobre lo ya conocido, y que el publish or perish domina como en cualquier otro campo, pero por la exigencia de rigor ante todo (y ahí no basta con el peer review; un resultado publicado puede ser destripado por cualquier especialista, sobre todo si lo quiere incorporar), lo que comentan ahí es muy difícil de ver en matemáticas.Hay otras cuestiones que no he visto mencionar, como la inflación de papers con escaso contenido, que afectan a todas las disciplinas. Recuerdo que Gauss, tenía por lema en cuanto a lo que publicaba pauca sed matura, cosa diametralmente opuesta al publish or perish de los coj****.
Cita de: muyuu en Julio 31, 2017, 12:05:53 pmhttps://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of-your-home-to-t-1797187829Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest BidderVale, éste robotito no sólo te aspira la casa, sino que aspira la información privada de paso... Lo desarrollan un poco más y te aspirará el alma; además, lo pagarás tú.
TomTom sells data to governments around the world but said the Netherlands was the only place in which it had been used by the police. TomTom asks customers for their permission to collect data when they log on to the company’s website to update their GPS devices. It says it receives billions of driving measurements each day from tens of millions of customers across Europe and North America.
[...]Otra reflexión que hago es la siguiente: muchas veces me he preguntado por qué los autores de esos papers que a mí me parecen notables no han intentado publicarlos en revistas buenas. Ahora me pregunto si el problema no es otro que yo, que apenas he empezado, ya esté contaminado por la industria del factor de impacto. Quizás los autores de esos papers quieran, antes que nada, hacer ciencia antes que carrera y, además, entiendan que una buena carrera investigadora es consecuencia de haber hecho más ciencia de calidad que ciencia en cantidad y, por tanto, no den tanta importancia a dónde publican; si la investigación publicada en el artículo es de calidad, si aporta algo, entonces será citada como se merece antes o después.
[...]- Chanchullos. Hay autores vetados en según qué editoriales porque son competencia directa o se llevan mal con alguien de la dirección de éstas. En un caso que "intuyo" el editor paralizó la publicación de un paper de la competencia para que el de un amigote suyo estuviera a punto para sugerir al primero hacer una publicación conjunta. Más de un año perdido para el autor que iba de legal.El mundo de la publicación es esto y mucho peor.
[...]¿Pero no se supone que en revistas serias las revisiones son doble-ciego?
Cita de: burbunova en Julio 31, 2017, 15:35:13 pm[...]¿Pero no se supone que en revistas serias las revisiones son doble-ciego?Y lo son. El problema te puede surgir si te especializas demasiado en un campo. Al final te sucede, como me sucedió a mí una temporada, que en todo el mundo éramos menos de una docena de grupos trabajando en una misma área. Te aseguro que si leo un paper "ciego" casi con total seguridad sé quién lo ha escrito (por lo que defiende e incluso por su estilo). Y si me conviene o no meterle caña. Eso sin chanchulleos que se acaben filtrando nombres, que prefiero no saber si es que sucede.De esa experiencia me quedaron un par de dudas/meditaciones:- Somos cuatro gatos los que nos dedicamos a esto y siempre tenemos problemas de potencia estadística por bajo tamaño muestral... joder montemos un consorcio y hagamos las cosas bien. Lo que salga será más robusto y nos lloverán billetes a todos.- Los jefes de grupo obviamente que no... que era un iluso y que eso no funcionaba así. La subvención que yo tengo es porque se la he quitado a otro. Quizá todos tuviésemos nuestra parte de razón pero este ambiente ultracompetitivo ya os digo que acaba acarreando resultados negativos por la excesiva segmentación. O esa es mi modesta opinión, que dada mi realidad es posible que esté equivocada.
El mundo de la publicación es esto y mucho peor.