[mmooss]

It also indicates when you are home or out, and likely an estimate of how many people live there. It could collect more data.

Those pieces of data are combined with others, to form a full picture. This device doesn't need to collect it all itself.

Survellance of private citizens is arguably the foundation of the very dangerous problems in societies around the world, taking away freedom, health, peace, and for most, prosperity. When do you stop it?

[sfn42]

If someone can get a bug into my home I'm pretty sure they already know how many people live there and whether we're home..

Ad if someone is bugging my home I think the data transfer from my dishwasher is quite literally the least of my worries.

[05]

> It also indicates when you are home or out

Yeah, being able to record sounds that the washer makes would probably also enable you to analyze things people say and extract much more information than 'how many people live there' and 'are they home or not'.

But fortunately for us, you need to actually press a physical button to make the machine sing the diagnostics..

[tempay]

I think you might have missed OPs point being about acoustically sending data rather than using bluetooth/WiFi.

If someone is close enough to your home to listen to your washing machine (or more likely, inside) they can probably hear/see you more directly.

[mmooss]

> I think you might have missed OPs point being about acoustically sending data rather than using bluetooth/WiFi

I did! Thanks.