The Daily Mail website reported in a new report that : The personal assistant of google is designed to give users the opportunity to chat with a number of different devices, send them commands to search online and run applications and other interactive functions, .
As part of this process, Google keeps copies of the tracks created each time the user activates the device with the personal assistant, but it turns out that the background chatter may be enough to trigger the recording, recording conversations automatically without activating it.
The US company has been keen to promote its voice assistance in recent weeks, during the launch of the phones in October, and the voice assistant is also enabled on a large number of phones running android operating system.
Daily Mail received a number of messages, including conversations showing how the voice assistant records user conversations without being known. Examples include a user whose voice login password was entered by a voice assistant while chatting with a friend.
"We do voice search after the personal assistant understands that he has to work by saying Google's word Google," a company spokesman said. "Google uses voice snippets to improve the quality of speech recognition through search. The surrounding record never moves to the cloud."
The Google Support site says that the company records your voice and other sound, plus a few seconds of surround sound before and when the service is activated, then the sound is saved in your account only when you log in and the Voice and Audio Activity is turned on, and the sound can be saved even when the device not connected.
As part of this process, Google keeps copies of the tracks created each time the user activates the device with the personal assistant, but it turns out that the background chatter may be enough to trigger the recording, recording conversations automatically without activating it.
The US company has been keen to promote its voice assistance in recent weeks, during the launch of the phones in October, and the voice assistant is also enabled on a large number of phones running android operating system.
Daily Mail received a number of messages, including conversations showing how the voice assistant records user conversations without being known. Examples include a user whose voice login password was entered by a voice assistant while chatting with a friend.
"We do voice search after the personal assistant understands that he has to work by saying Google's word Google," a company spokesman said. "Google uses voice snippets to improve the quality of speech recognition through search. The surrounding record never moves to the cloud."
The Google Support site says that the company records your voice and other sound, plus a few seconds of surround sound before and when the service is activated, then the sound is saved in your account only when you log in and the Voice and Audio Activity is turned on, and the sound can be saved even when the device not connected.
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