{"id":17316,"date":"2019-08-13T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T20:36:18","slug":"facebook-fb-paid-contractors-to-transcribe-user-audio-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17316","title":{"rendered":"Facebook (FB) Paid Contractors to Transcribe User Audio Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In follow-up answers for Congress, the company said it \u201conly accesses users\u2019 microphone if the user has given our app permission and if they are actively using a specific feature that requires audio (like voice messaging features.)\u201d The Menlo Park, California-based company doesn\u2019t address what happens to the audio afterward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-08-13\/facebook-paid-hundreds-of-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio\">Facebook (FB) Paid Contractors to Transcribe User Audio Files &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Facebook first started allowing Messenger users to have their audio transcribed in 2015. \u201c<strong>We\u2019re always working on ways to make Messenger more useful,<\/strong>\u201d David Marcus, the executive in charge of the service at the time, said in a Facebook post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In follow-up answers for Congress, the company said it \u201conly accesses users\u2019 microphone if the user has given our app permission and if they are actively using a specific feature that requires audio (like voice messaging features.)\u201d The Menlo Park, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17316\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[187,366,188,185],"class_list":["post-17316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-facebook","tag-interesting-features","tag-privacy","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17318,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}