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Re:Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was n... by rightbyte on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:21AM (#19206717)
Yes? Obviously it's not far fetched to fear that Google will spy on their alarm users, as its core business depends on it.

Conspiracys is not a nutcase dellusion it happens all the time but the term is somehow tainted, which in itself is somewhat of a conspiracy...

"the microphone has never been on", Google say about a passive device as it matters. More accurate would be "we did not record the microphone" but that might sound bad ...

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Re:Google says Nest’s built-in mic not listed in specs was n... by pawelmurias on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @10:41AM (#19208699)
They depend on having at least some reputation left so that they can siphon huge amounts of ad targeting data a lot more then on getting a few dark secrets in a super underhanded manner.
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