If you haven't had enough of the tracking stories from the big tech companies, here's the good news: Microsoft is listening to you through the trusted Xbox One.
The new report comes from Motherboard and reveals that Microsoft associates were hearing commands that used the words “Xbox” and “Hey Cortana,” but also sometimes hearing random ones. talks. Earlier this month, Microsoft admitted that her employees listen to them calls from Skype and Cortana commands.
So now we have to include the Xbox (which uses voice commands before the release of Cortana in 2016).
Of course, this is somewhat disappointing, although it was something that everyone feared would happen when Microsoft made Kinect part of its system since the days of the Xbox 360.
No one wanted to hear Kinect hear random chats - and obviously that's exactly what happened. Microsoft - along with several other companies are collecting voice data to improve their AI software. All companies insist that the data they collect is anonymous as much as possible…
Microsoft told Motherboard, after the aforementioned revelations about Skype, that it would try to be more transparent about the fact that people are listening to the audio data it collects and not some mechanical system. He has since added a paragraph to protection policy of the private life:
"OR processing of personal data for these purposes includes both automated and manual (human) processing methods.”
This is probably one of the reasons why it is good for Cortana to leave Xbox One in a future update.
The digital assistant from Microsoft will no longer be available on Xbox One starting this fall. It is assumed that this move will be made by Microsoft to move towards "assisted experiences from the cloud", whatever that may mean.
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