Microsoft, which purchased Skype in 2011, will soon increase its monitoring of Skype and other services. Starting May 1st they will further examine ostensibly private communicatiosn for 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' for the purpose of blocking. The changes are rolled out as part of a new terms of service advisory for the company's many services.
Microsoft will ban 'offensive language' and 'inappropriate content' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services on May 1, claiming it has the right to go through your private data to 'investigate.'
From IDG's CSO : Microsoft to ban 'offensive language' from Skype, Xbox, Office and other services.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday March 29 2018, @01:39AM (1 child)
Was it clear this applied to spoken conversation, or only text messages over the Skype chat?
Real time monitoring of Voice seems impractical.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday March 29 2018, @04:29AM
Youtube apparently does voice parsing while looking for stuff to ban. I expect parsing a mere audio stream is that much easier.
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