AndApplehas made the protection of privacy its credo, the subject seems less of a priority for the majority of its competitors. The other GAFAMs are thus regularly singled out for their risky behavior with regard to their customers' data, which has just been confirmed again by the service of a supplier from Satya Nadella's company based in Beijing.
Indeed, to improve your voice assistant,Microsoftmust make humans listen to our oral requests. And to do this, the multinational prefers to call on other firms specializing in this activity. As is often the case, these sub-contractors are based in the Middle Kingdom, like themanufacturers of iPhone batteries that we were able to discover in video recently.
The affair
It was an employee of the subcontractor in question who first alerted the press, explaining that he had had to analyze dozens and dozens of extracts fromrecordingsof voices provided by Redmond, on his laptop... At home, from a web page on Google Chrome and with a simple password to access the database.
In the age of two-factor authentication and serious concerns aboutthesurveillancemass in China, we are therefore entitled to wonder: the state authorities may technically have had access to this information if the PCs working on the task in question were in their sights. Obviously, the audio files to which the country's employees had access remain anonymous, but the question of their future remains unanswered. Some might even have saved tracks to their hard drive, simply by downloading them.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to know precisely who was affected by this flaw, however only softwareSkypeetCortanaconfigured inenglish languagewould be affected. In addition, the contract with the group created by Bill Gates would still have lasted… Two years. Enough to affect a good number of accounts. Finally, the source also specifies thatall participants in the operation were entrusted with the same identifiers for each session…Not very reassuring.
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