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I would count a recording of my voice as "personally identifiable information" right off the bat. Voice printing is a thing, and anyone will also tell you that
by freeAgent 7y ago
I would count a recording of my voice as "personally identifiable information" right off the bat. Voice printing is a thing, and anyone will also tell you that they recognize the voices of people they interact with regularly. If someone played an audio clip of someone I know talking to Google Assistant to me, I would recognize who it was based on their voice.
- Bartweiss 7y agoThis sent me down the rabbithole of learning how identifiable voiceprints are. As you might guess, the answer is "very", although to my surprise our voices change enough that recordings lose a great deal of fidelity over a few years. Authentication on fixed phrases is reasonably accurate within a very few words, so at minimum it should be possible to associate "Hey Google" clips with regular users of Google Assistant voice control (i.e. "OK Google"). Identifying whether someone is present in a large dataset on open phrases is much harder, but a ~30s clip could do the job fairly consistently for anyone with access to a significant amount of voice data. And if this employee (who isn't directly working for Google) shared 'thousands' of clips with a news org, the cautious bet is that some other employee might share them with anyone willing to pay for the records.