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Amazon ships more U.S. smart home devices than any other company and says Alexa is now compatible with 140,000 devices, far beyond the Echo and Fire TV. But privacy advocates are concerned by all the data these devices collect, and are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to block Amazon’s latest smart home expansion. After acquiring video doorbell maker Ring in 2018 and mesh WiFi system Eero a year later, Amazon’s now looking to buy Roomba smart vacuum maker iRobot. In a rare move, the FTC is asking for more information before approving the $1.7 billion deal. Ahead of Amazon’s annual smart home event, we talked to Amazon’s VP of privacy to find out what really happens to all the data collected by its devices - and sat down with the head of smart home to hear the strategy behind Amazon’s race to dominate the internet of things.

Chapters:
1:41 First to market
4:27 Acquiring iRobot
7:41 How it uses the data
9:45 Privacy concerns
11:33 Ambient home of the future

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How Amazon Dominates Smart Home And Why It Wants To Buy iRobot
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    Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Amazon is becoming one of those companies from Science Fiction works from authors like Philip K Dick or Asimov. All powerful, they are everywhere, they dominate everything and the grow to control your house, your vehicles, and with the time, your robots, your work too, until you become, instead of a consumer, another piece of the company working. Yes, we know we are exaggerating at this stage but what is true by now is that Amazon is the place to be to control all IoT on your home or office, and is still harvesting data thus lots of profit from you, from us, everywhere, every time. Interesting podcast.