Has Google breached privacy, collected children's voices, license plate details and more?
Google reveals that the major IT organization collected children's voice data without proper authorization, license plate numbers, carpool routes and private home addresses, according to a 'New York Post' report.
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The privacy breach leak also mentioned that there were thousands of similar cases flagged by Google employees across five years, between 2013-2018. The search engine's mysterious algorithm was responsible for collecting such private data, according to the latest reports.
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Incidents similar to these involve roughly 1,000 children who used the speech command function to access the YouTube app and get access to the YouTube Kids section.
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However, Google has claimed that it was 'a bug' that was responsible for these alarming incidents and it was fixed soon after being flagged by experts. According to reports, Google's team then deleted all logged data derived from the YouTube Kids databank during this period.
If this wasn't a privacy scare enough, another Google employee reported that Google's Streetview application was recording license plate numbers of vehicles on the road in a database by using an image-to-text algorithm. However, it was also noted that the issue around the number plates was 'an accident' and it should not have been recorded
