CNN By Kaya Yurieff 2/20/2019
It appears no one realized Google's Nest Guard home security device has a built-in microphone.
In a blog post earlier this month, the company announced Google Assistant would roll out to Nest Guard so users can ask it for information like the weather or traffic. The blog post acknowledged the gadget has one microphone -- news that was not made clear to users.
Google previously did not disclose the microphone's existence in any of its product descriptions but said it wasn't a "secret."
"The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs.
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