Facebook users to secretly listen to audio messages

It turned out, not only Google and Apple listening to conversations of its users. Facebook too collected record people and send them to contractors for further transcription. About it I told Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources.

Facebook is about voice messages from their own messenger. Contractors listened to these messages and relate them to the machine transcription. So they determined how accurately an artificial intelligence decrypts the record.

The company collects the voice data in several different ways, but in Privacy policy It does not explain clearly enough, for which the data it needs. Bloomberg also noted that contractors take their work as something "unethical" because Facebook "did not tell users that their accounts can listen to third-party person."

TechCrunch tried to find out from your Facebook, why she did transcribing audio messages and why not tell the user about it, but the company did not say anything. The representative of the social network just said that in the beginning of August 2019 Facebook has stopped listening to the recording.