Forbes reports on a new personal robot that will be sold commercially in 2015. Jibo has sensors and will live in users’ homes—but that means privacy concerns such as the gathering, processing and storing of information. It also means the feeling of being observed, the report states. Users will no longer type a search phrase into a field but will instead ask the robot for help in finding information. But an advantage of Jibo is that it won’t be silently collecting data on the user and sending it back for processing at some ISP homebase; instead it will provide “visceral notice” of the collection of information—“more powerful, certainly, than any privacy policy,” the report states.
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