Google bows to power of GDPR
Germany's data protection commissioner in Hamburg has launched an investigation into Google over revelations that contracted workers were listening to recordings made via smart speakers.
Google has been ordered to cease manual reviews of audio snippets generated by its voice AI for three months while the investigation is under way.
In a blog post last month, Google admitted it works with experts to review and transcribe a small set of queries to help better understand certain languages.
That was after a bunch of Belgian investigative journalists discovered staff were listening in on people who use its voice-activated Google Assistant product.
David Monsees, Google's product manager of ..
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