Dragon Dictation Gets An Update, Fixes Privacy Issues
December 16, 2009
Despite of its incredible success, Dragon Dictation the free voice recognition app launched last month by Dragon Naturally Speaking, got quite some criticism.
Indeed, as some of you noticed when it got published, Dragon Dictation had an unpleasant downside. The app would gather your contact names at its launch and upload them to Dragon’s server. The company answered the issue back, claiming this was done for improvement purposes and emphasized that they took a very good care of our data.
It was still a little disturbing; however, I didn’t particularly mind myself, but it seemed to be a serious privacy issue for many users.
Well, Dragon decided to address the issue and a just released a new update of the app. Thanks to this new upgrade you can not only prevent the app from uploading your contacts but also delete the previously uploaded ones from their servers.
This news will definitely come as a relief to Tiger Woods.