https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2019/08/14/humans-have-been-listening-to-our-ai-transcribed-conversations-for-over-a-decade/ > It was a scandal. Third-party contractors, many working from places where data protection legislation is lax (or even non-existent), were listening and transcribing recordings of conversations from people who unwittingly believed robots were doing all the work. Conversations about work, finance, and romance were snooped upon, analyzed, and then typed up. > I’m not talking about Facebook, or Apple, or Microsoft, or Google, or Amazon.