Facebook said it had time to pay a contractor or a third party to listen and copy audio clips in a Messenger conversation. However, the company said it was stopped only a week ago.
Since 2015, Facebook Messenger has offered a feature to copy sound clips into text. This feature still eavesdrops on the conversation even though the user has disabled it.
In addition to Facebook, US tech giants like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are reportedly also paying third parties to listen to users' conversations through their speaker devices and voice-based assistant services explicitly.
Apple reports that Facebook has followed in the footsteps of no longer using third parties to review user conversations via Siri.
Since then, Amazon has allowed users to stop using smart speakers. While Google still maintains Google Assistant which can operate in various languages.
Facebook recently forged a number of user privacy issues. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sentenced a fine of US $ 5 billion for invasion of privacy.
The FTC investigation began after last year Facebook was accused of violating the decision to share information on 87 million user data involving Cambridge Analytica.
As a form of problem resolution, Facebook said it would pay fines and provide a comprehensive new framework to protect user privacy.
As part of the settlement, Facebook's board of directors will create an independent privacy committee that removes CEO Mark Zuckerberg's control in making decisions that can affect user privacy.
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