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We knew that other companies were recording interactions with their smart devices, and using some of those recordings to check for quality by having real people listen to those interactions. But, until now, we thought Apple was different.
On Friday Apple confirmed, to the Guardian, a whistleblowers account that the company has similar practices to Google and Amazon, but never disclosed that fact in its privacy policy.
Apple samples a small number of recordings of interactions with its voice assistant Siri, which is used by millions of Americans on their iPhones, Apple Watch, and other iOS and Mac devices. According to the whistleblower, that includes "countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on."
I accidentally wake up Siri all the time on my watch or phone when I have no intention of interacting with her, and I've never given any thought to the fact that she's listening to whatever goes on in the background. In fact, we have a daughter whose name apparently sounds close enough to "hey Siri," that I'm frequently reminded by my iPhone that "you need to clean up your room," and "come set the table," are not commands yet supported by voice assistants (though that would be awesome).
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security/?&tag=Privacy
http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security/?tag=SIRI
We knew that other companies were recording interactions with their smart devices, and using some of those recordings to check for quality by having real people listen to those interactions. But, until now, we thought Apple was different.
On Friday Apple confirmed, to the Guardian, a whistleblowers account that the company has similar practices to Google and Amazon, but never disclosed that fact in its privacy policy.
Apple samples a small number of recordings of interactions with its voice assistant Siri, which is used by millions of Americans on their iPhones, Apple Watch, and other iOS and Mac devices. According to the whistleblower, that includes "countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on."
I accidentally wake up Siri all the time on my watch or phone when I have no intention of interacting with her, and I've never given any thought to the fact that she's listening to whatever goes on in the background. In fact, we have a daughter whose name apparently sounds close enough to "hey Siri," that I'm frequently reminded by my iPhone that "you need to clean up your room," and "come set the table," are not commands yet supported by voice assistants (though that would be awesome).
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
https://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security
http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security/?&tag=Privacy
http://www.scoop.it/t/apple-mac-ios4-ipad-iphone-and-in-security/?tag=SIRI