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Google ordered to halt human review of voice AI recordings over privacy risks
Natasha Lomas, TechCrunch, 2019
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- What it is
- A news report, published August 2, 2019, on the Hamburg data protection authority's plan to order Google to stop human review of Assistant audio, and on Google's reply that it had already suspended those reviews across Europe. It is one of the reports on the 2019 leak of Dutch-language recordings.
- How much weight it carries
- A specialist technology news report that quotes both the Hamburg regulator's statement and Google's reply. The dates are Google's own account of when it acted, and the article does not check them independently.
Facts taken from this source
- Google told the Hamburg data protection authority that it had suspended human reviews of Google Assistant audio across all of Europe on July 10, 2019, after learning of a data leak.
“manually suspend audio reviews of Google Assistant across the whole of Europe, and doing so on July 10, after learning of the data leak” (Body, paragraph on Google's reply to the regulator)