Microsoft Contractors Are Listening To Some Skype Calls

'Contractors working for Microsoft are listening to personal
conversations of Skype users conducted through the app's translation
service, according to a cache of internal documents, screenshots, and
audio recordings obtained by Motherboard. From a report:

Although Skype's website says that the company may analyze audio of
phone calls that a user wants to translate in order to improve the
chat platform's services, it does not say some of this analysis will
be done by humans. The Skype audio obtained by Motherboard includes
conversations from people talking intimately to loved ones, some
chatting about personal issues such as their weight loss, and others
seemingly discussing relationship problems. Other files obtained by
Motherboard show that Microsoft contractors are also listening to
voice commands that users speak to Cortana, the company's voice
assistant.'

-- source: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/07/1432204

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Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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