Beleagured voice-transcription company Spinvox has responded to criticisms, claiming its technology works as claimed, and the company does not break customers’ privacy. Spinvox said its speech system outperforms rivals on “accuracy, speed, scale, reliability and language range” and denied that the majority of messages are transcribed by people in call centres in South Africa and…
Category: Business
Amazon’s Bezos: deleting Orwell books was ‘stupid’
Amazon.com was widely criticized last week for deleting electronic copies of George Orwell’s novels from its customers’ Kindle readers after it discovered that it had inadvertently sold unauthorized editions of the books. On Thursday, Amazon’s chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, posted a statement on a customer forum, publicly apologizing for his company’s handling of the…
EFF action alert on Google Book Search
If you suspect you may have a serious disease, you can go into a bookstore and browse for books about your illness, find one that’s useful, and buy it with cash. And you can rest assured that your insurance premiums won’t increase as a result, because there is no way your insurance company can find…
An open letter regarding opt out cookie expirations
Chris Soghoian has posted a data-supported open letter to the NAI about opt-out cookies that is well worth reading. Chris writes, in part: In particular, I would like to draw your attention to the widely varying expiration dates for the behavioral advertising opt out cookies supplied by the various NAI member advertisers. The opt out…