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Google admits its new smart speaker was eavesdropping on users
- flavio81 9y ago"A major flaw has been detected in the newly-unveiled Google Home Mini" Do they (Google) really think everybody will believe this was "a flaw"?! Obligatory dilbert strip: http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-07-14 http://dilbert.com/strip/2017-07-14 This will probably become a scandal. Without good privacy assurance, we won't progress properly and fast in the IoT world.
- slededit 9y agoIt was an over sensitive capacitive touch sensor. I can understand the scepticism but if you've ever tried to make one you'd understand it's easy to screw up in subtle ways that only repro on a subset of devices.
- CamelCaseName 9y agoNo need for the alarm. This issue simply occurred because a small number of Mini's given out at a Google event had a defect where the "press to send voice command" registered phantom touches. Not only was this clearly unintentional, but the issue was "resolved" (not really because they just disabled the would-be feature) and deleted the data they accidentally collected in a few days. Very few people were impacted.
- b34r 9y agoAs always, QA is an afterthought at Google.
- CamelCaseName 9y agoThis article provides less information than a previously posted article [0] written by the individual who discovered the problem. [0] Google is nerfing all Home Minis because mine spied on everything I said - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446206 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15446206