Nest is locking customers out of accounts until they fix their security

ronjor · Feb 18, 2019

Chris Merriman @ChrisTheDJ 18 February 2019

Wants to stop the apathy surrounding security breaches
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ronjor · Feb 20, 2019

Google says the built-in microphone it never told Nest users about was 'never supposed to be a secret'

Nick Bastone 19 Feb 2019
In early February, Google announced that Assistant would now work with its home security and alarm system Nest Secure.
The problem — users didn't know a microphone even existed on their Nest Secure devices to begin with.
On Tuesday, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider it had made an "error."
"The 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," the spokesperson said.
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guest · Feb 26, 2019

The Senate Commerce Committee is demanding answers from Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the company's failure to disclose a microphone inside Nest home security devices
February 26, 2019
https://www.businessinsider.com/sen...oogle-over-hidden-nest-microphone-2019-2?IR=T

After last week's privacy blunder involving Google's Nest home security system, US lawmakers want answers.

On Monday, the Senate Commerce Committee chairman Roger Wicker (MS) sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding information regarding the tech giant's failure to disclose a microphone in its Nest Secure devices to consumers.
"In recent years, consumers have become increasingly concerned about the ability of large technology companies to collect and use personal data about them without their consent," the letter read.

The recent revelations, however, have caused the Senate committee to question Google on matters of consumer privacy and protection.
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