Report: Skype audio recordings were reviewed in China with ‘no security’

In the latest in a sadly lengthy series of companies misappropriating their capacity to listen to you, a new report reveals a Skype transcription program in China ran with little oversight or security protecting recordings of Skype customers. The company says these issues have been addressed, but it’s still a very unflattering look at its practices. The Guardian reports that a project to grade the translation software within Skype and Cortana ran for years in Beijing. An anonymous worker,