Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch, but still, there are a number of problems here. Google trumpets its artificial "intelligence" capabilities as they always do,

Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch, but still, there are a number of problems here. Google trumpets its artificial "intelligence" capabilities as they always do, and it eventually comes out that that its not "just a harmless computer algorithm" thats looking at your email or photos or whatnot, they give access to humans too. Oh, but only in a small tiny negligible, really just forget about this tiny tiny number, of cases. "[...] confirmed that he worked for a sub-contractor, paid by Google, to transcribe and annotate recordings, including presumptions of the speaker's age and other demographics."[1] We don't collect any personal data. Its just non-personal stuff to feed into our algorithm. Promise! Also Google: "We partner with language experts around the world to improve speech technology by transcribing a small set of queries - this work is critical to developing technology that powers products like the Google Assistant"[1] Seriously? What kind of BS logic is that. Let me just snoop on everyone so that we can improve our products to make more money, after we just made money selling you the product. They should be paying people to sign up for a study where they put in a listening device in their home to train their algorithm. Or purchase voice data from a corpus. Now they can ethically listen in on whatever they want and whenever they want. Instead, they just bury this under some opaque lawyerly language and spy on everyone. Is this the same company that purports to employ the smartest genius level talent? [1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3078773/google-assistant-voice-data-third-party-transcription https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3078773/google-ass...