Google “accidentally” enables home smart speakers to listen into everyday home sounds
(From The Independent)
The use of ambient monitoring for other reasons could lead to questions about what else Google will request to monitor in the future – especially since all that stands in the way of a users’ acquiescence is a privacy policy that few will ever read.
Google is not the only company with this feature; Amazon’s Echo speakers added a feature like this in 2018 called Alexa Guard.
This article was originally posted here: https://www.ac2news.com/2020/08/google-accidentally-enables-home-smart-speakers-to-listen-into-everyday-home-sounds/.
