Google has announced during the developer conference I/O soon to launch a major data protection initiative. The company, which has been relatively privacy friendly to US standards to date and offers users a range of settings for how their data is used, is likely to want to differentiate itself from other technology companies such as Facebook.
According to a
announcement from Google, almost all products such as Chrome, Maps, Assistant, Android and advertising are affected by the changes to data protection.
Speech Processing Locally on the Smartphone
Advances in deep learning have made it possible to reduce a 100GB speech recognition and processing model to half a gigabyte. This will allow the upcoming Android Q operating system to run Google Assistant directly on the smartphone instead of processing recordings in the cloud. The innovation will initially be limited to Google Pixel devices, but will later...
