Google resumes human review of Assistant recordings with a major change
(Android Central)

Your audio will be disassociated from your account before it is sent to human reviewers. What you need to know Google has resumed the human review program for Assistant audio recordings. The search giant had halted the human review program over privacy concerns in September last year. However, Google will now save your Assistant recordings only if you choose to. In July last year, a report had revealed that Google uses human workers to review audio clips recorded by its Home smart speakers and the Assistant app, without the knowledge of its customers. Google responded to the report saying that only 0.2% of all audio recordings are transcribed by humans and they are not linked to any personal information. Two months later, Google updated its policies and halted the human review process indefinitely. Now, Google has started sending out an email to everyone who has used an app or service using its voice AI – telling them that they can now review and enable the audio recording s...