It is one of the hot topics, the new world of los virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, or Google Home. Some new devices (eye that today Amazon is selling them at very suggestive prices) that are in the middle of the controversy because they are in continuous listening precisely in our most sacred place: in our homes. And yes, it seems that if we want something to assist us whenever we want it is necessary in a certain way that this device is continuously listening to us.
Ok that the information does not begin to transmit until we say the keyword, but who confirms this to us? The company that sells them? Well, today we bring you new news to feed this controversy, and it seems that Google would have confirmed that its employees would listen to Google Assistant conversations, and what is worse, it seems that some of these have been leaked… After the jump we give you all the details of this new controversy related to virtual assistants.
And we do not say it, the confirmation of this leak comes from Google. Of course, it seems that the leaked conversations only affect conversations in Dutch language, the others may be safe, or not ... Google would already be investigating this leak, and as a result of this confirm that their employees listen to conversations in order to improve their development.
And yes, they would also have confirmed that those conversations recordeds are not only the conversations started after the «OK Google»It seems that there are also previous conversations ... What can we do? assess our information, see what these assistants bring us and decide. Also, from the privacy settings we can delete the conversations recorded with the Google assistant, and we can even configure that these conversations are deleted every 3 or 18 months.