Practical applications stemming from the bug could include the possibility for more effective extortion or blackmail campaigns and highly targeted ads (for example, an advertiser could determine if a user is at work or home and serve different ads accordingly).
A recently discovered authentication weakness impacting Google Home and Chromecast devices could make it trivially easy for an attacker to pinpoint your location.
Tripwire researcher Craig Young stumbled across the weakness while creating a lab exercise to demonstrate how a website can identify and take control of screens or speakers on a local network.
