{"id":1305,"date":"2020-04-11T03:58:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2020-04-11T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T03:58:04","slug":"google-vows-to-do-more-to-protect-your-voice-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Google vows to do more to protect your voice data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/wgs4fcgr3zi.jpg\" alt=\"google\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                Credit: CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>Google came under fire after media reports revealed that its contractors listened to customer audio recordings captured by the company&#8217;s virtual assistant this year.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>Now, Google wants to be more transparent with you about &#8220;how your data is used and why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The search giant released a blog post on Monday promising to do more to protect your privacy when using its Voice assistant, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that we fell short of our high standards.&#8221; The Google Assistant is available on Google Home speaker along with Android and iOS smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently we&#8217;ve heard concerns about our process in which language experts can listen to and transcribe audio data from the Google Assistant to help improve speech technology for different languages,&#8221; the tech company said.<\/p>\n<p>Google said it immediately stopped having humans transcribe and launched an investigation into the matter. It also vows not to store your audio data by default.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By default, we don&#8217;t retain your audio recordings. This has been the case, and will remain unchanged,&#8221; Google said. The company is shifting to an opt-in privacy model, where you can review your settings and confirm your preferences before humans can listen to samples of your recorded audio.<\/p>\n<p>The company also says it&#8217;s on a mission to vastly reduce how much audio information it stores by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Google is far from alone in using your voice data to improve its service offerings. Apple, Facebook and Microsoft have each admitted to listening in on a limited basis in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s Siri is baked into over 1 billion iPhones. Facebook&#8217;s Messenger app allows people to send audio recordings, which were transcribed by contractors at one point. And Microsoft listened in for Skype&#8217;s translation feature, not Skype calls.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: CC0 Public Domain Google came under fire after media reports revealed that its contractors listened to customer audio recordings captured by the company&#8217;s virtual<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[47,1066,80,26,1067],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","tag-google","tag-protect","tag-tech","tag-voice","tag-vows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}