Facebook transcribed users’ audio and passed it on — report
Hundreds of contractors have been hired by Facebook to listen and transcribe audio recorded from users, according to a Bloomberg report.https://www.dw.com/en/facebook-transcribed-users-audio-and-passed-it-on-report/a-50016404
Doesn't pass the smell test
A big software co like FB has all the auto programs to make transcripts
from the link:
When Gavin McInnes—founder of the violent, far-right group The Proud Boys—spoke to a Manhattan Republican club last October, the neighborhood response was less than welcoming. Protesters took to the normally sedate Upper East Side block with chants and spray paint. The Proud Boys responded with fists and kicks. Nearly a year later, as the assault and riot charges against four Proud Boys go to trial, prosecutors revealed that they had turned to an alarming new surveillance tool in this case: a reverse search warrant.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office admitted it demanded Google hand over account information for all devices used in parts of the Upper East Side. They didn’t do this to find the Proud Boys; they did it to find Antifa members. https://www.thedailybeast.com/manhattan-da-cy-vance-made-google-give-up-info-on-everyone-in-area-in-hunt-for-antifa-after-proud-boys-fight