The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced today that Wayne Thorsen, managing director of hardware business development for Google will deliver the keynote address at its upcoming 2020 virtual Annual Meeting at 11:10 a.m. on Oct. 27.
Control4 Corporation, a global provider of smart home solutions, is advising customers the company will embrace “Works With Google Assistant” and is developing new Nest drivers in cooperation with Google’s certification standards.
Recent reporting by Business Insider, CNN Business and many other publications have highlighted the undisclosed, on-board microphone discovered in Google’s Nest Guard Security Device — raising serious privacy concerns among consumers. The Monitoring Association (TMA) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA), trade associations representing professionals who install and monitor security and life safety technologies in homes and businesses, call into question the validity of Google’s published statements concerning the use of microphones in security devices.
Google Nest has become a trending topic this week as multiple users have reported security breaches. On Tuesday, Q13 FOX reported that a family in Auburn, Wash. claimed that someone hacked their Nest and was watching them and speaking through the cameras. On Sunday, a Northern California family’s Nest issued a fake emergency warning claiming that three nuclear missiles from North Korea were headed for Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio, according to the East Bay times.
