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Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'

 
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Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'
Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'

In early February, Google announced that its home security and alarm system Nest Secure would be getting an update. Users, the company said, could now enable its virtual-assistant technology, Google Assistant.

The problem: Nest users didn't know a microphone existed on their security device to begin with.

The existence of a microphone on the Nest Guard, which is the alarm, keypad, and motion-sensor component in the Nest Secure offering, was never disclosed in any of the product material for the device.

On Tuesday, a Google representative told Business Insider the company had made an "error."

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Isn’t this the system in which you can talk to your prospective bugler...?

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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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Hey if Zuckerberg puts tape over his own computer camera, you know they can watch and listen to us all the time. We blindly accept this software because it's encompassed within shiny technological objects that we unnaturally crave so much. But from our ignorance they derive our consent. So given that we've asked for this or at least let it happen, we don't reserve the right to complain about it.
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Re: Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'
Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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tree fiddy
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Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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Or a non-liberal, non-libtard, conservative.

Silicon Valley is full of people who, in spite of knowing full well just how scandal-ridden, corrupt, greedy, dishonest and unethical Hillary Clinton was, still said "I'm With Her."

Like generally attracts like.

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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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The definition of terrorist is up to the government.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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The definition of terrorist is up to the government.
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So they can pick you up any day? What difference does a hidden mic make then?
wait....what?

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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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tree fiddy
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ohyeah
Tree fiddy at best!
Might just be severely retarded.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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So what three letter agency pulls your strings dumbass?!?
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Re: Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'
Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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So what three letter agency pulls your strings dumbass?!?
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What do you have got to hide?
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Now they know and now you get fucked!
I lost my apathy.
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Take fuckers down a few pegs and they will stop that shit. That is unless it was government sponsored!
I lost my apathy.
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You might want to disable the mic on your computer....
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You might want to disable the mic on your computer....
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I have a laugh track to entertain them.
I lost my apathy.
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Re: Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'
Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70299868


So what three letter agency pulls your strings dumbass?!?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77239290


What do you have got to hide?
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Certainly it shouldn't be the idiotic, corrupt liberalism/leftism of people throughout Silicon Valley.

When the Congress held hearings last year to deal with bias, censorship and banning in social media and the internet, the sleazy liberalism of people was barely or never raised.


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This is the deep state's secret push to craft ways to blackmail you/compromise you. Always listening/watching in your home, then bring it out as evidence if you don't push their narrative.

The good news is...it's all over soon.

Google is in deep, deep trouble.
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I lost my apathy.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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"Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it"

I say "Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and stop buying them"

Thats being an enabler. We people die, its those who assisted who are accomplices. 5G to new gear = for tards. Old stuff works just fine
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You might want to disable the mic on your computer....
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Actually I speak to my computers at home and work vs. use a keyboard as often as possible.

I have not deluded myself into believing I am so important that anyone cares what is said in my home or office.

Besides, it's kinda fun to go to Google and listen to things I've said years ago. It provides an ephemeral permanence to my words.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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You are a retard. People do have an expectation of privacy in their homes and when something material like this was not disclosed, it's immoral.

I'd send you a bucket of red for that comment, but you are a worthless AC.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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Bullshit. People like you need to be vanished.
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Demand privacy, don't beg.
I lost my apathy.
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The Google CEO is from East India & is the same caste as Kamala Harris mother, so enuff said.

Silicon Valley is stuffed full of Middle-Easterners, East Indians, Chinese etc. Facebook/Zukerberg are the coolest kids on the block.

All our technologies are being siphoned off Eastwards, while we are being spied on and sabotaged inside.


Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing GE technology

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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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Or if you challenge the nwo usa gov who are the real terrorists.
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No need to keep it a secret when everyone keeps giving permission for activity monitoring every time they click the 'agree' button.

People just LOVE giving away their rights and mine.
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Just assume that all consumer electronics these days have microphones and cameras and live with it.

Jesus. You guys sound like the privacy nuts in 90s who kept ranting about the government being willing and able to read your email one day. They've been doing it and... are you in jail for wrongthinking, yet?

Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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Or if you challenge the nwo usa gov who are the real terrorists.
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The US govt is only 250 years old

The real terrorists are from the East, right from ancient times.

The Persians, Phoenicians/Carthaginians, Huns, Islamic Arab Jihad, Mongols, Tamerlane, Ottoman Turks, Imperial Japanese Army, Mao, Pol Pot, Vietcong, Taliban, Osama etc.

The have raped and killed hundreds of millions.
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Privacy is way overrated. Nobody's interested in you unless you're a terrorist.
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stfu

We need a throat punch picture!
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Here is a big fuck you to the spy technology!


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The rise of the machines. Sooner or later they are going kill us.





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