Recent reporting by Business Insider, CNN Business and many other publications have highlighted the undisclosed, on-board microphone discovered in Google’s Nest Guard Security Device — raising serious privacy concerns among consumers. The Monitoring Association (TMA) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA), trade associations representing professionals who install and monitor security and life safety technologies in homes and businesses, call into question the validity of Google’s published statements concerning the use of microphones in security devices. 

Just days before starting her new role as executive director of TMA, Celia Besore spoke with SDM about her vision for the association. 

ESA recently announced the passing of Joseph F. Duncan Sr. (Joe). Duncan died at Hope Hospice on May 3, 2017.