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Microsoft tweaks privacy policy to admit humans can listen to Skype Translator and Cortana audio
TechCrunch staff, TechCrunch, 2019
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- What it is
- A news report, published August 15, 2019, that Microsoft updated its privacy statement and product FAQs to say people sometimes review Skype Translator and Cortana audio. It quotes a Microsoft statement given to Motherboard and says the review covers short snippets of a small sample.
- How much weight it carries
- A technology news report that quotes Microsoft's statement directly. It documents the disclosure change and Microsoft's own description of the review, but not the number of recordings reviewed.
Facts taken from this source
- In August 2019, after questions about Skype Translator and Cortana audio, Microsoft said it could do better at specifying that humans sometimes review this content, and it updated its privacy statement and product FAQs.
“We realized, based on questions raised recently, that we could do a better job specifying that humans sometimes review this content.” (Statement to Motherboard, quoted in the article)