If you believe it was ‘accidentally’, I’ve got a bridge in New York to sell you.<\/p>\n
Google accidentally enables Home smart speakers to listen in to everyday house sounds<\/a><\/p>\n Google accidentally enabled a feature for Google Home users which let the smart speaker listen to the sounds of objects in your house.<\/p>\n A user on Reddit spotted a notification on his phone from his smart speaker which alerted him to the fact his smoke alarm was going off while he was cooking.<\/p>\n Usually, Google Home devices only respond to its active \u2018wake words\u2019 \u2013 such as \u201cOk, Google\u201d or \u201cHey, Google\u201d \u2013 but in this instance the speaker was listening out to a passive sound and make \u201cmy dumb smoke detectors smart,\u201d the Reddit user wrote.<\/p>\n Other users reported getting alerts for the sound of glass breaking, popped bubble wrap, an air compressor tank, and other high-pitched noises that sound like alarms.<\/p>\n In a statement to Protocol, a Google spokesperson said that the feature was accidentally enabled through a recent software update which has now been reversed.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Suuuuure it has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you believe it was ‘accidentally’, I’ve got a bridge in New York to sell you. Google accidentally enables Home smart speakers to listen in to everyday house sounds Google accidentally enabled a feature for Google Home users which let the smart speaker listen to the sounds of objects in your house. A user on … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57832,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57831\/revisions\/57832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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