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Facebook until recently carried out human review of private audio in order to improve artificial intelligence systems to transcribe accurately, a representative said in an emailed statement on Wednesday, adding the practice was common in the industry. “Much like Apple and Google, we paused human review of audio more than a week ago,” the representative said. Facebook, which has been facing broad criticism from lawmakers and regulators over its privacy practices, did not respond to a report published by Bloomberg on Tuesday that said outside contractors had been used to transcribe the clips.
“Further to our ongoing engagement with Google, Apple and Microsoft in relation to the processing of personal data in the context of the manual transcription of audio recordings, we are now seeking detailed information from Facebook on the processing in question and how Facebook believes that such processing of data is compliant with their GDPR obligations,” the commission said in an emailed statement.
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