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Did you know that all your voice recordings that you make on your assistant such as Google Assistant, Amazon with Alexa, Apple Siri, or Microsoft Cortana, that in many instances those recordings are not private.
Recently Apple apologized for listening to Siri recordings. This was discovered because human contractors were listening to extended audio samples and the commands that were given to this voice assistant. This was to improve the quality. However this was disclosed publicly and Apple CEO Tim Cook indicated they will be changing this. They got rid of all their human review by contractors indicating that in the future it was only going to be Apple employees as they can better hold them to non-disclosure standards and they claimed they would no longer keep the recordings.
Interesting enough Tim Cook often refers to privacy as a fundamental human right and in this instance they would push out so updates so you are aware your recordings will be reviewed.
We end up giving a lot of consent for these privacy issues that exist these days because we don't even want to read the huge and confusing legal acceptable use policies and we just want to use the software or app.
I feel that privacy is one of the top issues are our time and it's at the forefront of the news now with things like Cambridge Analytica on Facebook last year.
Make sure you review your own privacy and security settings on your accounts and what is being shared. I realize a lot of us ignore security for the sake of convenience, so don't be surprised when something "bad" happens.
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By dpappDid you know that all your voice recordings that you make on your assistant such as Google Assistant, Amazon with Alexa, Apple Siri, or Microsoft Cortana, that in many instances those recordings are not private.
Recently Apple apologized for listening to Siri recordings. This was discovered because human contractors were listening to extended audio samples and the commands that were given to this voice assistant. This was to improve the quality. However this was disclosed publicly and Apple CEO Tim Cook indicated they will be changing this. They got rid of all their human review by contractors indicating that in the future it was only going to be Apple employees as they can better hold them to non-disclosure standards and they claimed they would no longer keep the recordings.
Interesting enough Tim Cook often refers to privacy as a fundamental human right and in this instance they would push out so updates so you are aware your recordings will be reviewed.
We end up giving a lot of consent for these privacy issues that exist these days because we don't even want to read the huge and confusing legal acceptable use policies and we just want to use the software or app.
I feel that privacy is one of the top issues are our time and it's at the forefront of the news now with things like Cambridge Analytica on Facebook last year.
Make sure you review your own privacy and security settings on your accounts and what is being shared. I realize a lot of us ignore security for the sake of convenience, so don't be surprised when something "bad" happens.