Facebook Employees Were Listening to Messenger Voice Recordings

Afterward Amazon, Google and Apple, Facebook is now in the eye of a tempest for allowing its contractors to transcribe audio from its online services, including its Messenger's Vocalization Chat characteristic. According to Bloomberg, the employees were neither told how the audio clips were obtained, nor given any reasons as to why the company needed them to be transcribed.

Facebook admitted to letting its employees listen in to individual conversations of its users, but said that information technology stopped the practice following similar steps from other majors tech companies, including Google, Apple and Amazon. Their determination followed contempo revelations that these companies were letting their employees listen in on audio recordings of their users – often without their explicit consent – ostensibly, to improve the AI credentials of their respective voice assistants.

In a printing statement on Tuesday, Facebook said: "Much like Apple and Google, we paused homo review of audio more than than a week ago". The visitor, even so, claimed that it had obtained prior permission from users to have their voice chats transcribed, and added that the data associated with the recordings was anonymized before beingness accessed by contractors. According to the company, users unwilling to have their voice chats listened to could accept easily denied permission by going into the Settings carte of their Messenger app.

The latest development follows contempo reports that Apple, Google and Amazon take all been assuasive its employees to admission Siri, Assistant and Alexa vocalisation recordings, often without the knowledge of the users. According to reports, such vocalisation recordings oftentimes include sensitive information, including medical details, drug deals and even couples engaging in sexual activities.