Nest’s Hidden Microphone Prompts Privacy Group to Call for FTC Action Against Google

Some Google employees are calling on the search giant to remove a member of its newly-chartered AI ethics committee. In a petition posted Monday, a group called Googlers Against Transphobia asks the company to dismiss Kay Coles James, a prominent co.....»»

The U.S. Supreme Court this week reversed a lower court’s decision in a class-action Internet privacy case against Google that swept up more than 100 million Americans. The ruling this week throws the fundamentals of the case into question, and coul.....»»

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday put in jeopardy an $8.5 million settlement Google has agreed to pay to resolve a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating a federal privacy law by sharing users' search queries with other websites......»»

Users of Facebook, Google and other popular technology platforms are likely to benefit from stricter privacy regulations beginning next month......»»

Users of Facebook, Google and other popular technology platforms are likely to benefit from stricter privacy regulations beginning next month......»»

An Austrian privacy group is wasting no time......»»

Nest Google has removed Marwan Fawaz as CEO of Nest. The Nest team will now be folded into Google's home devices division led by Rishi Chandra. After generating a lot of attention wh.....»»

Middletown PressTrump brings limited firepower to fight over Google news feedMiddletown PressPresident Donald Trump's call for action against Google and other internet companies over the way they.....»»

A class action lawsuit brought against Google sought $3.5 billion in compensation. A class action lawsuit brought agai.....»»

OPEC has urged its members not to mention oil prices when discussing policy in a break from the past, as the oil producing group seeks to avoid the risk of U.S. legal action for manipulating the market, sources close to OPEC said......»»

Consumer agencies in the Netherlands, Poland and five other European Union countries asked privacy regulators on Tuesday to take action against Google for allegedly tracking the movements of millions of users in breach of the bloc's new privacy law......»»

Getty 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 security devices to begin with. On Tuesda.....»»

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The device, Google says, was never intended to be a secret, but it only just revealed it. If you bought into Google’s Nest Secure home security and alarm system, you probably won’t have realize.....»»

A microphone built into its Nest security system wasn't supposed to be a secret, Google said after announcing Google Assistant support for the sy.....»»

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Wednesday it had made an "error" in not disclosing that its Nest Secure home security system had a built-in microphone in its devices......»»

“The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs,” a Google statement said......»»

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