Η Google admitted that its employees had the opportunity to listen to the recordings of users in the Artificial Intelligence system of the technological Colossus Google Assistant.
ΦIt seems that the recordings are made by her program Google, which aims to organize a smart home or perform tasks and searches for the user with a voice command, are accessible to people within the company.
Google's admission comes after the leak of recordings in German, with the tech giant conducting research to identify the. Information leak.
Google logs us home
These are more than a thousand audio files, which were investigated by the Belgian public television and from which it emerged that 153 were recorded by mistake. The Google Home Assistant automatically logs commands when it receives a trigger that activates its function, which is usually a phrase like "OK, Google».
Google claims that employees are watching certain recordings in order to better understand how words are worded in some languages. A company spokesman claimed that only 0,2% of all recordings are accessible to humans, while the audio files do not reveal personal data.
However, Belgian television reports found recordings that included information such as users' addresses and even conversations of elderly people listing their grandchildren's names.
The second time Google admits that it is following us
In 2017, Google confirmed that the microphone on their Mini Speaker device mistakenly allowed users to record even when the service had not been activated with the "keyword". In addition, these recordings may be against the law GDPR concerning European territory.
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