Bloomberg reports the Irish Data Protection Commission is weighing whether it will launch an investigation into a possible data breach of Google. The tech giant filed a data breach notification to the DPC last week following reports out of Belgium that contractors had been able to listen to users' audio from Google Assistant. “We just learned that one of these language reviewers has violated our data security policies by leaking confidential Dutch audio data,” Google said in a blog post responding to the Belgian reports. “Our security and privacy response teams have been activated on this issue, are investigating, and we will take action. We are conducting a full review of our safeguards in this space to prevent misconduct like this from happening again.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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