{"id":8678,"date":"2019-02-21T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=8678"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:33:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:33:55","slug":"google-nest-secure-with-secret-microphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2019\/02\/21\/google-nest-secure-with-secret-microphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Nest Secure with &lsquo;secret&rsquo; microphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Schutz.jpg\" width=\"40\" align=\"left\" height=\"47\">Google made a big mistake: The Google Nest Secure alarm system contains a microphone that was never mentioned within the specs or within Googles product sites. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nest.com\/alarm-system\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Nest Secure<\/a> is an alarm system consisting of several components for use in home environments. On February 4, 2019, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2019\/02\/04\/nest-secure-google-assistant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> that Nest Secure could be supported by Google Assistant via a firmware update. This Google Assistant can be operated by voice (so an alarm could be switched off by voice command). <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Google Nest Secure\" alt=\"Google Nest Secure\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/qGe5DkA.jpg\"><br \/>(Source: Google)<\/p>\n<p>After that announcement, some people expresst their amazement, because the specifications and product descriptions of Google Nest Secure never mentioned a microphone in the Nest Guard component.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Google?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Google<\/a>'s @Nest Secure devices really had secret microphones that they hid from consumers, those consumers should probably be forgiven if they don't trust the company's after-the-fact promises that it never spied on them. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DontBeEvil?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DontBeEvil<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sZsFC31zdV\">https:\/\/t.co\/sZsFC31zdV<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CSOonline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@csoonline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Zeller Jr. (@tomzellerjr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomzellerjr\/status\/1098022848772206592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">20. Februar 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"preservefc27b2f2d03d492db698a25a0b11d6a8\" class=\"wlWriterPreserve\"><SCRIPT charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async><\/SCRIPT><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson confirmed to Busines Insider that a mistake had been made. The on-device microphone was never meant to be a secret and should be listed in the technical data. That was a mistake on our part', said the speaker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google made a big mistake: The Google Nest Secure alarm system contains a microphone that was never mentioned within the specs or within Googles product sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448,580],"tags":[701,69],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","category-security","tag-device","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}