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		</div><p>Facebook has become the latest technology firm to admit listening to and analysing some audio recordings from users.</p>
<p>The social network said it had reviewed some small segments of audio to help improve the artificial intelligence of the transcription feature within its Messenger app</p>
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<p>The feature enables users to dictate a message with their voice before Facebook’s software transcribes it into text.</p>
<p>According to a report by Bloomberg, Facebook used contractors to carry out human review of some clips from the process.</p>
<p>But the social networking firm said it has now ended the practice.</p>
<p>“Much like Apple and Google, we paused human review of audio more than a week ago,” a Facebook spokeswoman said.</p>
<p>In recent months Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft have come under scrutiny after admitting they had listened to audio requests made to their respective virtual assistants.</p>
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<p>The companies each said they used the practice to grade and analyse the quality of their voice and language recognition services, with the aim of improving their performance.</p>
<p>Some of the firms said they have since ended the practice, while Amazon said it will let users opt out of having their audio reviewed by humans.</p>
<p>Facebook said the audio used in its programme was de-identified and masked to protect user privacy, and that the company never listened to people’s microphones without device permission and explicit activation from someone.</p>
<p>The social network has previously been the subject of claims that it listens in to user audio in order to target them with advertising.</p>
<p>Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg labelled the idea a “conspiracy theory” when he appeared in front of the US Congress last year, adding “we don’t do that”.</p>
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<p>Last month, the social media company also agreed a £4 billion fine with the US Federal Trade Commission over privacy violations linked to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.</p>
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