- Google admitted on Thursday that more than 1,000 sound recordings of customer conversations with the Google Assistant were leaked by some of its partners to a Belgian news site.
- These conversations are used by companies such as Google and Amazon – which takes clips from the Amazon Echo – to improve voice responses from their smart assistants.
- And they are supposed to be kept confidential.
- But Belgian news site VRT said that a contractor provided it with samples of these sound samples, which VRT then used to identify some of the people in the clips.
- It also examined the sorts of conversations that Google collects when people say “OK Google,” into a phone or a Google Home product.
- Among other things, VRT heard customer addresses.
- Sources who talked to the publication also described hearing recordings of a woman in distress and people talking about medical conditions.
In brief: More than 1,000 private conversations with Google Assistant have been leaked
Google admitted on Thursday that more than 1,000 sound recordings of customer conversations with the Google Assistant were leaked by some of its partners to a Belgian news site. These conversations are used by companies such as Google and Amazon – which takes clips from the Amazon Echo – to improve voice responses from their […]
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