A leak suggests that Google employees may be listening in on your conversations with Google Home, whether you want it or not. GoogleHome
Google Home, the smart speaker that can you can control with only your voice, and Google Assistant, the search giant’s answer to Siri, record some of your interactions with them for the company to review.
Google employees explained to VRT that part of their job involves transcribing these audio files. If they came across words they didn’t know how to spell—often names of locations, people and workplaces—they would search them up, and in the process accidentally discover the identities of those who were recorded.
The privacy concerns this practice raises are obvious. Although names are anonymized in Google’s system, incriminating details contained within the audio files themselves are not censored. Captured in the leaks include medical questions, addresses, private phone calls, bedroom talk, and porn searches.
out there that can use Google Assistant. Google also dismissed “false accepts,” their term for audio recorded without an “OK Google” command, as a rare occurrence.
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