Slowly and steadily, many silicon valley tech giants have come forward about their use of human contractors to listen to audio recordings of users.
And Microsoft is the latest one to public the truth. Following numerous reports on the subject, Microsoft has admitted that some humans do listen to Skype and Cortana audio recordings.
But the case is slightly different from the revelations from Facebook, Apple, and other tech giants. Unlike others who are working towards for a fix (post backlash, of course!), Microsoft has unflinchingly admitted the fact by simply updating a privacy policy.
Here is a snippet from the Microsoft latest privacy statement. Like every privacy policy out there, the first statement on the page goes, “Your privacy is important to us.” Somewhere at the end, there is some information about “manual” methods of processing.
“Our processing of personal data for these purposes includes both automated and manual methods of processing… To build, train, and improve the accuracy of our automated methods of processing (including AI), we manually review some of the predictions…For example, we manually review short snippets of a small sampling of voice data we have taken steps to de-identify to improve our speech services, such as recognition and translation.”
Microsoft admitted the truth comes after Motherboard’s report that revealed the company’s contractors are listening to Skyp ..
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