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dtarabar@acm.org
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 06:33:12 -0400

Christine McMorrow was in the middle of using her iPhone's voice-to-text feature to comment on a *New York Times* story this week.

As she paused from ranting on the newspaper's website to take the call on the house phone, little did she know that her iPhone never stopped recording her voice. The contents of her private conversation were accidentally transcribed directly into the story's comment box, and then inadvertently posted to the Times' website.

<https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/reader-center/nyt-comments-section.html> http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/10/27/mass-woman-comment-new-york-times-article-went-viral-here-story-behind/6NsrsKKl0jTk0Vfq7qypvN/story.


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