The housecleaning is free—but it will cost you your most intimate data

Shift is paying cleaners to wear camera headsets inside customers’ homes, building the datasets that could shape the future of domestic work. Is the price for the future of robotics worth it?

In our digital age, services and devices are constantly gathering our data. Exactly how that information is harvested and used, and how transparent a company is about those practices, may not always be obvious.