I'm going to again call for individual accountability, despite this blog having deleted my past post on that topic. That's ironic to me, given that Bruce constantly calls for laws and regulations, as though they're enough to address the issue. Companies break laws and ignore regulations all the time, and the result is usually little more than a fine that is a cost-of-doing-business drop in the bucket for these hundred billion dollar sociopaths. These "errors" don't just magically, passively happen. People performed those actions, possibly with malicious intent. If Google (or any other similar privacy-eroding company) wants to get back our trust, they would transparently expose their internal communications that demonstrate where in the process the documentation of the microphone went missing. I want to know if anybody there was an O-ring hero who went to the mat trying to do the right thing. I want to know what the company has done to change the process so that such "errors" don't happen in the future. It also speaks volumes on their lack of understanding when companies say that they aren't using the extra included sensors. The whole problem with IoT devices is that security doesn't appear to be a priority, so it's really just a question of when someone will abuse the existence of those sensors. 5005789e00cb6b79139d84295bff626e547160ac0bd537ca34ef255377e58ae5