[(Title)] Republican lawmakers want to know if Apple and Google are collecting users' audio recordings without consent

Four senior U.S. House Republicans sent letters on Monday to the chief executives of Apple and Google parent Alphabet asking questions about location data and mobile phone privacy practices and the handling of customer data.

美国众议院四位共和党高层周一致函苹果和谷歌母公司Alphabet的首席执行官，询问有关位置数据和手机隐私做法以及客户数据的处理问题。

The chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Greg Walden, along with three other senior Republicans on the panel, wrote the companies "to probe the companies' representation of third-party access to consumer data,and the collection and use of audio recording data as well as location information via iPhone and Android devices."

能源和商业委员会主席格雷格·沃尔登以及小组中的其他三名共和党高级成员写道“调查这些公司在第三方获取消费者数据方面的代表性，以及通过iPhone和Android设备收集和使用音频记录数据以及位置信息。“

Alphabet did not immediately respond to a request for comment and an Apple spokesman declined to comment.

Alphabet没有立即回应置评要求，苹果发言人拒绝置评。

The letters, made public by the committee on Monday, said the companies may be using consumer data, including location information and recordings of users "in ways that consumers do not expect."

委员会周一公布的这些信表示，公司可能正在使用消费者数据，包括用户位置信息和记录“以消费者期望的方式使用”。

The letters cited reports that smartphones can, and in some instances, do, "collect 'non-triggered' audio data from users' conversations near a smartphone in order to hear a 'trigger' phrase,

这些信件引证了有关智能手机能够，在某些情况下可以"从用户谈话中收集`非触发'音频数据，以便听到`触发'短语。

such as 'Okay Google' or 'Hey Siri.'" They said that there have been suggestions that third party applications have access to and use this 'non-triggered' data without disclosure to users.

有人建议第三方应用程序可以不向用户披露，查阅和使用“非触发的”数据。

The letters both ask if Google Android or Apple iPhones collect audio recordings of users without their consent and said the committee "is reviewing business practices that may impact the privacy expectations of Americans."

这两封信都问谷歌(Google Android)或苹果(Apple)iPhone是否未经用户同意而收集用户录音，并说该委员会“正在审查可能影响美国人隐私预期的业务做法”。

The letter to Alphabet noted that in June 2017, Google announced changes to Gmail that would halt scanning the contents of user email in order to personalize ads, saying it was making the change in the interests of privacy and security.

致Alphabet的信指出，2017年6月，谷歌宣布了对Gmail的更改，将停止对用户邮件内容的扫描，以便对广告进行个性化，并表示谷歌正在改变隐私和安全利益。

The committee cited a Wall Street Journal report last week that "Google still permitted third parties to access the contents of users' emails, including message text, email signatures, and receipt data, to personalize content."

该委员会上周引用了《华尔街日报》的一份报告，称“谷歌仍然允许第三方访问用户邮件内容，包括邮件文字、电子邮件签名和接收数据，以便对内容进行个性化”。

The letters asked both companies to respond to questions by July 23 and to brief committee staffers on issues raised.

信中请两家公司在7月23日之前回答问题，并向委员会工作人员简要介绍所提问题。

The letters follow high-profile congressional hearings in April into Facebook's privacy practices, which included testimony from CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

这些信函是在4月份国会听证会上对Facebook的隐私做法进行了曝光之后发出的，其中包括CEOMark Zuckerberg的证词。

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