Google Home Mini caught recording everything and sending all the data to Google

The worry with smart home speakers is that they have the built-in ability to record everything you say and sending that data to the company that makes them or to hackers that obtained access to such devices.

But when the home speaker is Google’s new Home Mini, all sorts of red flags go up. After all, this is a company which has had to deal with a variety of privacy-infringing scandals in the past, and a company that makes money off your data.