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Japan’s Henn na Hotel says it’s “modified” the bots so pervs can’t exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests. Continue reading Robot Hotel says sorry about the buggy bedside bots
Our sister website Just Ask Gemalto has a myriad of practical advice and tips to help you stay safe online this Cyber Security Awareness Month. We take at a look at some of the highlights.
The post Top digital security tips from our Just Ask Gemalto ex… Continue reading Top digital security tips from our Just Ask Gemalto experts that can help you stay safe online
Deepfake technology, which uses deep learning to create fake or altered video and audio content, continues to pose a major threat to businesses, consumers, and society as a whole. In the lead up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, government offici… Continue reading Deepfakes and voice as the next data breach
Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it. Continue reading Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy
Facebook says it’s paused the practice of collecting voice clips and sending them to employees to transcribe and analyze. Continue reading Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats
Cisco announced today that it was open sourcing the MindMeld conversation AI platform, making it available to anyone who wants to use it under the Apache 2.0 license. MindMeld is the conversational AI company that Cisco bought in 2017. The company put the technology to use in Cisco Spark Assistant later that year to help […] Continue reading Cisco open sources MindMeld conversational AI platform
The biometric voice data had been collected without explicit consent from people calling the HMRC’s telephone hotline for advice.
Continue reading HMRC to finally erase five million voice records it collected without permission
It wasn’t that long ago that talking to computers was the preserve of movies and science fiction. Slowly, voice recognition improved, and these days it’s getting to be pretty usable. The technology has moved beyond basic keywords, and can now parse sentences in natural language. [Liz Meyers] has been working …read more
Continue reading This Cardboard Box Can Tell You What It Sees
With traditional CRM tools, sales people add basic details about the companies to the database, then a few notes about their interactions. AI has helped automate some of that, but Gong.io wants to take it even further using voice recognition to capture every word of every interaction. Today, it got a $40M Series B investment. […] Continue reading Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition
The UK tax authority continues to store a huge database of millions of voice IDs which were collected without permission.
Continue reading Thousands of taxpayers tell HMRC to delete voiceprint data it stored without consent