“There were no security measures, I don’t even remember them doing proper KYC [know your customer] on me. “Living in China, working in China, you’re already compromised with nearly everything,” the contractor said. An experimental feature enabling live text translation of Skype calls was vetted by humans, Vice revealed, raising the prospects of individuals making sensitive calls without knowing that their conversations were effectively bugged. Microsoft disclosed to users that the company might “analyse audio” of calls, but not that it would be playing them to human workers. We will continue to take steps to give customers greater transparency and control over how we manage their data,” Microsoft added.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 10:41 UTC