Google admitted to listening to private conversations with users

The report presented on Belgian television fueled the rumor that companies "behind" the mobile phone (owners of the applications we use) are listening to us, a latent fear in today 's society. And even more with the background of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which Facebook has disclosed the data of 87 million users.

However, Google confirmed the reporter Anita Rodríguez Correa of C5N What any user can restrict the data that he provides to his applications by accessing the "my account" section. (Https://myaccount.google.com)

Apparently, the society has been practicing this practice for years with private recordings in different languages, including Spanish and Portuguese. In principle, listening to audios is done to improve the functioning of Google Assistant. So that the badistant can better understand what users are talking about.

"Language experts review and transcribe a small series of questions to help us better understand each language.It is an essential and necessary part of the process of creating a voice technology"said David Mosees, head of research products at Google.

According to the Spanish newspaper The country, the "transcriptionists they listen to about 5,000 records a week "and it's not Google's employees but a tertiary company with which they must sign a confidentiality agreement.

Google insisted in its statement that "audio fragments are not badociated with user accounts as part of the review process"They do not have access to any personal data beyond what is heard badured.