Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their privacy

Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by smelendez on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:54PM (#19409842)

I think that would be hard to pull off in the US, where I live. There are enough paranoid infosec people that would spot the data transmission or CPU usage.

But certainly no harm done in muffling or ripping out a mic if you're concerned!

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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by pdkl95 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @06:54PM (#19410916)

Why would anybody bother trying to hide traffic? Lots of apps already waste bandwidth and CPU to exfiltrate a wide variety of data, often sending it straight to Facebook[1]. They simply relabeled it "analytics",

[1] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9941-how_facebook_tracks_you_on_...

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Re:Google’s Nest fiasco harms user trust and invades their p... by r00fus on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:41PM (#19410466)

Not if it’s intermittent / on-demand and hiding within existing traffic.

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