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Personal data
Connected kitchen robot and privacy
Publié le null - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You will offer or receive a multi-function kitchen robot for the holidays. Do you know that this item can collect personal data about your eating habits, your uses, record conversations...? Update with the National Commission on Informatics and Freedoms (Cnil).
Some kitchen robots are equipped with a Wi-Fi connection that allows access to online services (recipes, instructions...), a microphone to record instructions and offer the user the possibility to create an account on the manufacturer's website to benefit from additional services.
The data collected in this way can be used by the manufacturer or its business partners to analyze your habits and offer you targeted advertising.
Know that you must then be informed of the purpose of this reuse, the transmission of data to partners, the nature or even the identity of these partners... You must also be able to accept or reject these operations.
Warning
- a robot with Wi-Fi will connect to your home computer network and will therefore have access to all the resources on your network (file shares, printers...);
- in the case of the presence of a microphone, even if it is not active at the time of purchase, it can be activated later by the manufacturer by means of a simple update, without you necessarily being informed, and the microphone can then record and transmit sound extracts to third parties.
The Council's advice:
- learn about the features of the device before you buy it (on sales sites or discussion forums);
- Tailor your purchase to your actual needs (are the device connectivity features worth the extra cost and risk to my data?)
- Make sure you can physically (by a button on the device) or software (by device settings) disable Wi-Fi, the microphone, or any other feature that you are not using and that can be potentially intrusive.
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