Google Home and Google Assistant new Features Update
Google confirms that third parties can listen to audio snippets collected by Google Home and Google Assistant Some of the conversations we have with Google Assistant or Google Home devices can be heard by Google employees or subcontracted from the company . 0.2% of them according to Google. As part of the improvement and training of their voice recognition service, audio fragments are sent to third parties to be analyzed and learned from them. In the last few hours, the process by which Google sends audio fragments (anonymized) to subcontracted employees for them to analyze them has come to light . The Belgian radio VRT NWS has shown how third parties can through this process listen to audios with sensitive information. They are not the only ones, Amazon also recently admitted that it retains data from some users even if the user deletes the voice recording. Why a Google out sourcer can listen to your conversations To clarify the situation Google has published an article explai...