Microsoft contractors listened to audio recordings captured by Xbox One Kinect and Cortana in people’s homes, a report by Motherboard has revealed.
It’s a practice that started at the beginning of the Xbox One’s life cycle to improve the voice command system run through the Kinect, but several contractors said they listened to audio accidentally picked up and recorded by owners’ consoles as well.
“Most of the Xbox related stuff I can recall doing was obviously unintentional activations with people telling Cortana ‘No’ as they were obviously in the middle of a game and doing normal game chat,” a current contractor said (as the contractors had signed NDAs, Motherboard kept them anonymous to protect their identities).
Source: Eurogamer Microsoft contractors reportedly heard the weird things you said in front of your Xbox One