Google Accidentally Rolled out Nest Aware Features to Unsubscribed Users
Aug. 4, 2020Smart home products like smart speakers and smart displays have always been viewed as a potential privacy threat among some users. Recently, a Reddit user noticed that hisGoogle Home smart speaker was able to detect a smoke alarm without having permissionto do so.
“Burned something in the kitchen and the cheap $10 smoke detector went off. Then I got a notification on my phone that google heard the smoke detector going off. Pretty rad google,”wrote the user.
Subin writes about consumer tech, software, and security. He secretly misses the headphone jack while pretending he’s better off with the wireless freedom.
