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In response to a commercial that hijacks Google Assistant (aka the Google Home device), Google has updated their systems to prevent that single recording from triggering the device:
Burger King made waves today after it released a TV ad that purposely triggered the Google Assistant. The ad ends with a person saying "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?"'—a statement designed to trigger any Google Assistant devices like Android phones and Google Home to read aloud a description of the hamburger's ingredients. Google apparently wasn't happy with a third-party hijacking its voice command system to advertise fast food, and has issued a server-side update to specifically disable Burger King's recording.
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Neither Amazon's Alexa nor Google Assistant can identify who is speaking to it based on a profile. This functionality could be added in the future with a hardware or cloud update.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14 2017, @01:26AM (1 child)
Right along with the IoT devices these electronic data harvesters have about as much security awareness as the original desktop computers?
This is why we can't have nice things. We never learn.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Dunbal on Friday April 14 2017, @02:18AM
Original desktop computers were not plugged into any network.