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Seriously. Gotta love the Google PR strategy of apologizing and attempting to portray this as a simple, common mistake.
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If only they put a mic in their "learning thermostat" so it could hear my kids cursing about how cold the house is
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In the 90s I heard that speakers/microphones are inherently bidirectional. So I plugged some speakers into a microphone port and it worked (crappy quality). So, I guess, technically anything with a speaker could be listening also
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In all fairness - and I despise devices like this, Alexa et. al. - a microphone and a speaker operate essentially using the same physical principle. Give it a try and plug your headphones into the microphone jack and see that in action by talking to them
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And now, an honest translation... "The on-device microphone was never intended to be discovered and should have been better concealed within the product. That was an error on our part."
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What the hell happened to the ”Don't be evil” mantra? I miss that.
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It was too long, so they dropped the first word.
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Like Alexa?
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Everyone who either funds or receives funding from MITRE, put down your hands.
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