Earlier this month, everyone who’s gotten used to saying, ‘Okay Google’ instead of swiping and tapping to call, set an alarm or reminder, or perform the dozens of functions Google Assistant is capable of was subjected to an unpleasant surprise. There had been a big audio leak and the leaked data contained audio recordings of users’ interaction with the AI.
To its credit, Google promptly admitted to the leak of Dutch audio data comprising 1,000 plus private conversations that had been recorded by its voice assistant. According to sources, the recordings were leaked to VRT NWS, a Belgian public broadcaster by some of Google’s language review partners and the news company was even able to identify a number of people from the voice recordings.
