
#270 Design for safety with Eva PenzeyMoog
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The Power of Understanding Devices
Google Nest announced that you will soon be able to use the Google Assistant on the Nest device before they had even told anyone that it had a microphone. That's really interesting that you got a kind of hardware tech in something, but because it's not in use, it's not a feature,. So you don't need to talk about it, so you don’t need to give consent to use it. And of course they weren't using it, they say, but anyone can hack a microphone on a tech device. Yeah, that's, it's really creepy. But this is an example where it's like, man, our laws are so far behind like that shouldn't be
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