Voice Tool Wispr Flow Exposed for Retaining and Profiling Private User Dictations
ayushtweetshere · x · 2026-08-12
AI voice dictation tool Wispr Flow recently admitted on official channels that they retain everything users dictate, sparking severe privacy concerns.
Commentators pointed out that the company reads all data, whether sensitive client information or private journal entries, and even profiles users based on nationality to train its models. This practice of defaulting to collect user privacy for model training has drawn widespread criticism in the tech community.
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