Facebook is delaying plans to unveil its long-rumored smart speaker in the wake of the ongoing public outcry over the company's data collection policies, according to a new Bloomberg report.

Reports from Digitimes and Bloomberg last year said that Facebook is working on a large-touchscreen smart home speaker designed for video chatting, similar to Amazon's Echo Show , as well as a standalone speaker akin to the Google Home and Echo, which would sell for a lower price.

The former will reportedly include a wide-angle lens that can recognize users' faces and associate them with Facebook accounts. Both devices are said to use a new voice assistant. A January report from Cheddar said that the video chat device would be named "Portal" and that it could be priced at $499. Work on the devices is said to be led by Facebook's Building 8 team, a group within the social media giant that focuses on consumer hardware.

Bloomberg says Facebook planned to unveil its new smart home products at its annual F8 developer conference in May, with a full product release coming in the fall. But the Cambridge Analytica controversy and the subsequent public outrage over Facebook's handling of user data appear to have put the big reveal on the back burner. (Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm that did work for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, was revealed to have retained copies of private data for some 50 million Facebook users.) The report says Facebook is now taking a closer look at the products to ensure they make the "right trade-offs regarding user data."

Various reports this week said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before Congress in the coming weeks over the company's privacy practices.

Despite the concerns over Facebook's customer data usage practices, many of which existed well before the Cambridge Analytica uproar, the report says Facebook still plans to release the speakers sometime this year. Facebook declined to comment on this story.