August 30, 2019 Apple apologizes for humans listening to Siri clips, changes policy Apple is turning off automatic review of Siri audio and locking it down so that only Apple employees get to listen to it. Naked Security
August 15, 2019 Facebook got humans to listen in on some Messenger voice chats Facebook says it's paused the practice of collecting voice clips and sending them to employees to transcribe and analyze. Naked Security
July 30, 2019 Listening in: Humans hear the private info Siri accidentally records Apple Watch and HomePod have the highest rate of inadvertent recordings, a whistleblower says. Naked Security
July 12, 2019 Hey, Google, why are your contractors listening to me? Humans are listening to our recordings - some made by mistake - to improve speech recognition. But they're not as anonymous as Google says. Naked Security
June 30, 2017 CIA contractors fired for stealing from hacked IoT snack machines Some things really, really shouldn't be turned into IoT devices - including vending machines Naked Security
May 09, 2017 Dating site users spammed with smut after ‘third-party’ data leak The publisher's blaming a third-party contractor and "human error." Naked Security
May 11, 2016 Former US army contractor sentenced for damaging computer systems, lying about serving in China’s army To get security clearance, he lied about his People’s Liberation Army service, then erased network logs to cover his tracks. Naked Security
May 10, 2016 Google employees’ details breached in vendor’s email bungle Somebody at a third-party benefits management company accidentally emailed taxpayer IDs to a benefits manager at another company. Naked Security
May 15, 2015 Three women indicted for allegedly stealing identities from people’s passports The three allegedly cooked up counterfeit documents and got others to borrow money to buy iPhones, iPads and other gadgets. Naked Security
