Fri. 08/02 - Stop Listening To Me, Siri!

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🗓️ 2 August 2019

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, August 2nd 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Google and Apple suspend their programs whereby humans listen in on what you say to your voice assistant.
0:15.8	Google will also let Android users in Europe pick a search engine.
0:19.7	Verizon tortures the very definition of words. Amazon Dash buttons have an official Horizon, of Tech.
0:34.0	So I didn't mention this yesterday, but Google recently agreed to stop listening in on and transcribing
0:41.9	Google Assistant Recordings for three months for users in Europe.
0:47.3	We have discussed a couple times how all of the major voice assistant platforms, employee contractors who actually listen in on a
0:55.8	subsection of what you say to your assistance in order to make the assistance speech recognition better.
1:04.0	Well obviously, this looks like something that would run afoul of GDPR or some kind of European privacy
1:11.6	regime.
1:13.0	So under pressure from the EU,
1:15.5	Google says it will pause language reviews
1:18.1	by humans for three months
1:19.9	while it investigates how its practices
1:21.6	can remain on the right side of those data laws.
1:25.2	And I did not cover this as well, but last week it came to light that Apple II, like Amazon does
1:32.4	with Alexa and Google, as we just said, does with Google Home,
1:38.0	Apple uses contractors to listen in on and grade responses that Siri gives you. To do so, they regularly hear all
1:48.4	sorts of sensitive snippets of conversations sometimes due to accidental Siri activations.
1:55.0	So in essence, all of the voice assistants have this issue, even Privacy-focused Apple with its Siri.
2:04.0	No one is immune.
2:06.0	But this morning, Apple said that it is suspending its Siri response grading program,
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