Google Home Mini ...

The new electronic gagetry is progressing at a geometric rate. There are new ways to provide the content of your casual conversations to those servers on the so-called cloud designed to contain them for further processing by marketing people, law enforcement, the NSA ... just anyone with whom the owner of that information wishes to share !

So google wants to be your virtual assistant with a new model of google Home designed for every room of the house. They tout a "sleek" minimalist design loaded with "more features than ever".

Now then, I'm sure it appears quite Japanese but my issue is not so much it's presence but what it's doing while it monitors all conversations in it's purview.

I'm already suspicious of Alexa and everything else designed to be your "mouth of the South" with wifi access to the internet all ready to capture and store whatever is encountered for the benefit of whomever decides what personal recognizance is relevant to their marketing and / or regular transmissions to the NSA.

Anyway, call me paranoid but there will be no such devices availing themselves to any nice spying on me while they tend to my every personal assistant whim. The thought of the innumerable suckers who will place these "assistants" on their networks with full access is one compelling lesson in naivete.

I'll bet the sales will be peppy among the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Soon google will own the bulk of that wretched refuse of our teeming shores.

Pigeon of the electronic snoop and stool pigeon.