Google contractors are listening to your conversations with Google Assistant

Google says contractors listen to recordings to better understand language patterns and accents. Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home. Its user terms confirm recordings may be used by the company, stating Assistant “records your voice and audio on Google services to improve speech recognition.” Monsees wrote that Google works with contractors around the world to analyze the recordings. Google’s terms don’t explicitly say that people review the recordings, but do state that data could be analyzed as the company updates services or create new features.