The reason I think it’s news: I agree Google products are a privacy dumpster fire, and even think some people that bought the nest thingy agree.

The part that is news for me: Google is (inadvertently?) moving the bar of acceptable behavior to “we’ll plant microphones (and other surveillance hardware capabilities) in devices now, wait until you start relying on unrelated functionality, then totally issue a press release before we turn them on and start slurping your data.”