Whatever you've got to say about Google, it can't hear you over the sound of it banking $85m a day in pure profit • The Register
- TECHNOLOGY
- February 5, 2019
In brief Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week. The Chocolate Factory admitted it had accidentally turned on a feature that allowed its voice-controlled AI-based assistant to activate and snoop on its surroundings. Normally, the device only starts actively
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