21 February 2019

Not to worry, citizens...

...Skynet will be here soon enough and everything will be just fine...insert alt text here
Google said Wednesday it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system, the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry's leading collectors of personal information.

The company said in a statement that the omission was a mistake. "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret."
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RELATED: Because Bill Gates says so...
Microsoft’s Edge browser reportedly allowed Facebook to “run Adobe Flash code behind users’ backs.”
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LAST WORD: Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria would be proud...
Facebook’s Onavo VPN app has been dying a slow death since it was exposed as a clandestine data collection monster last year.