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posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 14 2017, @12:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the poking-the-bear dept.

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.

Very related: News Anchor Sets Off Alexa Devices Around San Diego Ordering Unwanted Dollhouses

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.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 14 2017, @02:56AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday April 14 2017, @02:56AM (#493797) Journal

    As several wags have commented here already, the S in IoT stands for security and the P is for privacy. I'm looking at this and imagining some kind of horrible IoT-driven nightmare scenario in 2019 or 2020 when every dumbass in the country has one of these things.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 14 2017, @03:01AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday April 14 2017, @03:01AM (#493799) Journal

    PILOTS: Private Internet Lot of Things Securely

    Sorry, someone with a marketing degree needs to pick up the slack.

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    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 14 2017, @03:33AM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday April 14 2017, @03:33AM (#493811) Journal

      I prefer INEPT: Internet of Neglected, Easily Pwned Trash.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14 2017, @12:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 14 2017, @12:32PM (#493925)

    the S in IoT stands for security and the P is for privacy.

    and the G is for Google and that spells SPIGoT