Google found itself in some hot water this week when a glitch was discovered in its soon-to-be-released Google Home Mini: The device was found to be recording the user’s actions even when they hadn’t used a “wake word” to activate it.
Ben Johnson (@TheBrockJohnson), who covers tech for Here & Now, explains how wake words work, what went wrong with the device and how worried we should be in the long term about devices listening in.
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