The new Google Home Speaker is silently downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data in the background, hitting an unknown number of owners.
This is not a minor telemetry quirk. Hundreds of gigabytes is storage-device and data-cap territory, and Google has not explained what is being pulled down or why. The original report details the scope of the problem and which users are affected, making it worth reading before assuming your unit is clean.
No fix has been announced. If you own a Google Home Speaker, check your router's per-device bandwidth logs now.
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