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The first thing I looked at, the Google Nest Protect says: Microphone: Device: Yes Tracks Location: Device: Yes Biometric: Voice recordings Huh?
by banana_giraffe 5y ago
The first thing I looked at, the Google Nest Protect says:
Microphone: Device: Yes
Tracks Location: Device: Yes
Biometric: Voice recordings
Huh? There's no GPS, no mic (at least, there are no voice based features, and teardowns I've seen haven't spotted a mic).
There might be reasons to not want one, for sure, but inventing reasons isn't a good sign.
Edit: I was wrong, ignore me.
- chewmieser 5y agoIt does definitely have a mic but it's supposedly only used for sound checks (and audio never leaves the device): https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9250972?hl=en https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9250972?hl=en
- banana_giraffe 5y agoFair enough, that's still a long ways from recording my voice all the time. Now I need to revisit the teardowns I've seen to see how they missed this.
- auslegung 5y agoIt might track location via Wi-Fi.
- jamesgeck0 5y agoThe Nest device doesn't use GPS, but it does use a variety of sensors (sound, IR, etc) to try to determine if you're home or not, thus technically establishing your location.
- vetinari 5y agoTechnically, you don't need GPS for location tracking. All you need is to scan for BSSIDs around you and then check in a database, where in the world they are. Conveniently, Google has one such database ;). (That's also the reason why Android gates wifi network scanning behind location permission).