Some Google Home Speakers caught downloading hundreds of gigs of data

Some Google Home Speaker owners have reported their devices repeatedly downloading large amounts of data in the background, apparently because a firmware update is not installing correctly. Google says a fix is rolling out, and the issue matters because it could consume users’ home internet allowances without their noticing.

One Reddit user reported more than 200GB of data use in a day. Another affected speaker reportedly used 132GB in a month, while a different device used 2GB over the same period; most reports concern the newer Google Home Speaker, but the scale of the problem is unclear.