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It's an obvious enhancement to a home monitoring product users paid money for, specifically for this purpose. https://www.blog.google/products/google-nest/5-th

It's an obvious enhancement to a home monitoring product users paid money for, specifically for this purpose. https://www.blog.google/products/google-nest/5-things-know-about-new-nest-aware/ https://www.blog.google/products/google-nest/5-things-know-a... Google added smoke alarm sound detection to a product that users bought specifically for "smart" smoke alarms and "smart" audiovideo recording of their home

itsoktocry 6y ago
>It's an obvious enhancement to a home monitoring product users paid money for, specifically for this purpose. And yet it was turned on for people who did not pay for the service, or give permission to Google to do so. Which means they can listen in whenever they feel like and chalk it up to "whoops, pushed the wrong code, sorry!" apparently.
- jdashg 6y ago
  Consequences are in line with what happened, not the least charitable possibility of what that class of error can be. Google absolutely has the technical ability to auto-update my phone to send deepfaked porn of me to all my contacts, but it's pretty reasonable for me to expect them not to.