Google Home Mini secretly recorded everything its owner said

Google's new Home Mini voice assistant has been spying on some of its users, due to a "phantom" issue. The device is designed to respond to your questions, but only after you say "Okay Google" or "Hey Google", or tap and hold a touch panel on it. However, an early release model has been found to be recording its owner all the time, without him realising. Android Police's Artem Russakovskii, who received a Google Home Mini at the company's recent Pixel launch event and kept it in his bathroom, reported the extremely serious issue to Google last week. "It was waking up thousands of times a day, recording, then sending those recordings to Google," he said.