{"id":35480,"date":"2019-02-20T21:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35480"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:44:25","slug":"about-that-privacy-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35480","title":{"rendered":"About That Privacy Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2019\/02\/20\/report-google-failed-to-disclose-secret-microphone-in-nest-home-security-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> is reporting today that Google failed to tell consumers about a secret microphone in its home security product, Nest Secure. So your security system may be eavesdropping on you. Great.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nest-microphone-was-never-supposed-to-be-a-secret-2019-2?r=US&amp;IR=T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Business Insider<\/a>, Google announced this month \u201cusers would now be able to use Google Assistant\u201d on Nest Secure devices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>However, \u201cusers didn\u2019t know a microphone even existed on their Nest Secure devices to begin with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Google apologized for failing to disclose the \u201csecret\u201d microphone on Tuesday, claiming it was due to an \u201cerror.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part,\u201d declared a Google spokesman. \u201cThe microphone has never been on, and is only activated when users specifically enable the option.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cSecurity systems often use microphones to provide features that rely on sound sensing,\u201d the spokesman explained. \u201cWe included the mic on the device so that we can potentially offer additional features to our users in the future, such as the ability to detect broken glass.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a saying that you should never put anything in writing that you wouldn&#8217;t want your mother to see as a headline in The New York Times. I think we need to change that saying to never say anything within range of your security system, your cell phone, or Alexa that you wouldn&#8217;t want to see as a headline in The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart is reporting today that Google failed to tell consumers about a secret microphone in its home security product, Nest Secure. So your security system may be eavesdropping on you. Great. The article reports: According to Business Insider, Google announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,6252,7874,1401,12009,10253,6700],"class_list":["post-35480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-breitbart-com","tag-consumer","tag-google","tag-nest-secure","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35481,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35480\/revisions\/35481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}