Google’s Nest hub has a microphone it forgot to mention


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 21 Feb 2019

FILE- In this Sept. 20, 2017, file photo the Nest Secure alarm system is seen on display during an event in San Francisco. Google says it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in the security product it began selling in 2017, but blames the omission on an error. When the company’s Nest Secure home alarm system hit the market, its product information didn’t mention a microphone. Google said in a statement that the microphone wasn’t intended to be a secret and should have been disclosed. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Google said Feb 20 it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system, the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry’s leading collectors of personal information. 

The company said earlier this month that its voice assistant feature would be available on the system’s Nest Guard, which controls home alarm sensors. 

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