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Google’s Home Mini Needed a Software Patch to Stop Some of Them from Recording Everything

11-10-2017 < Blacklisted News 136 102 words
 
October 11th, 2017

Mmm hmm.


Via: The Verge:


Categorize this under “one of the worst possible PR nightmares for a Google smart speaker.” According to Artem Russakovskii at Android Police, the Google Home Mini he was reviewing was randomly and near-constantly recording sounds in his home and transmitting them to Google. The company acknowledged the problem and is issuing a software update to resolve the issue, which appears to boil down to a failure of the touch sensor on the top.




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