https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/08/21/microsoft-is-listening-to-you-via-your-xbox-one/ > If you haven’t had enough stories about contractors listening in on your conversations, good news: we’ve found even more of them. This time the contractors in question work for Microsoft and have been listening to you through your trusty Xbox One. > The new report from Motherboard reveals that contractors listened to commands that were supposed to be triggered by the words “Xbox” and “Hey Cortana,” but were sometimes captured by accident. That seems to be a running theme whenever I hear these stories about voice-activated assistants. Earlier this month, Microsoft admitted humans were listening into Skype calls and Cortana commands, and now its workers have included the Xbox (which ran on voice commands even before Cortana‘s inclusion in 2016).