
Facebook a payé les entrepreneurs pour transcrire les discussions audio
septembre 14, 2019
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Bloomberg reports that Facebook retains recordings of users’ voice chats and paid contractors to transcribe them. Now that this has been exposed, the social media giant says it has « paused » the work.
Facebook Inc. has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, according to people with knowledge of the work.
The work has rattled the contract employees, who are not told where the audio was recorded or how it was obtained — only to transcribe it, said the people, who requested anonymity for fear of losing their jobs. They’re hearing Facebook users’ conversations, sometimes with vulgar content, but do not know why Facebook needs them transcribed, the people said.
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