“This time German authorities caught the giant company recording and transcribing private conversations. Just weeks ago, Google was the target of an investigation by Ireland’s data privacy watchdog.
The nation’s Data Protection Commission said it would focus on the company’s apparent violation of the European Union’s privacy rules. And Google is just one of the tech companies facing such scrutiny.
Facebook allowed the political consultancy company Cambridge Analytica to obtain access to the data of 87 million users. And Google was fined about $56 million this year for privacy violations in France.
The latest development is an order from the data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany, to stop doing manual reviews of audio snippets generated by its voice AI…”
The move also follows a leak last month of audio recordings from the Google Assistant program. A Dutch language reviewer gave more than 1,000 recordings to a Belgian news site which then was able to identify some of the people in the clips…”
Google suspends eavesdropping after caught in another privacy scandal
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