Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google’s Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times

October 15th, 2018

Shocker.

Via: Forbes:

Anyone pumped for this week’s launch of Google’s Home Hub might want to temper their excitement. A smart home is a surveilled home. That’s been the concern of privacy activists since citizens started lighting up their abodes with so-called “smart” tech in recent years.

Take Google’s current smart home division, Nest Labs. It’s been told to hand over data on 300 separate occasions since 2015.

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