Contractors at Microsoft eavesdrop on some Skype calls
Amazon and Google have been in the headlines recently over how the tech giants’ workers eavesdrop on the audio footage picked up by smart assistants. Now Microsoft has explaining to do following reports that its employees listen in on real Skype conversations that have gone through translation software processing.
People contracted to work with Microsoft take dialogues in for review as a means of translation quality control. No mention of this surveillance appears in Skype’s terms and conditions.
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