Everything Siri should be opt in, it should be disabled by default if Apple markets privacy.
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Everything Siri should be opt in, it should be disabled by default if Apple markets privacy.
Yeap, I was so annoyed by the media and the users on here slagging off Alexa, because I damn well knew in the settings you can opt out of your recordings being used to improve it! Yet here’s Apple doing exactly the same with little to no vetting of the people listening, Amazon states it’s workers have to Sign NDA contracts, and with no opt out option bar turn off Siri, yet it sticks huge privacy bill boards up...
Actually I saw this coming a mile away, I thought it was a very very dangerous path they were going down when they started this privacy ad campaign.. let’s see if the advertising regulators in the EU have them for false or misleading advertisement. That’ll dent their reputation a bit.
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And I remind everyone:
From:lisa jackson@apple To: john.podesta Date: 2015-12-20 17:26
"Thousands of times every month, we give governments information about Apple customers and devices, in response to warrants and other forms of legal process. We have a team that responds to those requests 24 hours a day. Strong encryption does not eliminate Apple's ability to give law enforcement meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data."
https://www.sott.net/article/332223...-bar-to-giving-govt-data-Apple-told-Democrats
And note that privacy is not about "you" this is about the potential for coercion and blackmail (of, for example the judicial branch, health and safety violations, whistle-blowing etc).
Note that this is not a political post but rather a legal and policy one which shows that it is Apple's actual policy to turn over information not necessarily with a subpoena - as their rhetoric of privacy is not legally binding AFAIK.
If anything, you should SMH to your self for not having common sense and not realizing how things really work.
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Simple, flip it. Button is now on the other side. Done.
That pretty much includes any device with a mic and camera then.
Nah, he's preaching to the choir. There is a definite group of people who cannot countenance any criticism of Apple, they are his audience for the most part.
Accidental triggers. When the user has the handsfree 'Hey Siri' enabled the device listens for the key phrase, often it is trigged accidentally from random conversation and starts recording.
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I don't read much of the other person but Jason Snell I like, very honest never apologetic in situations that don't warrant it.
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Pretty bold claim there. The voice is identifiable information unless they auto-tune it randomly.
Who removes the information if someone says a house address?
I think you're misunderstanding the issue.
The claim is that Siri is often accidentally triggered and then records private conversations that people are having in person.
Repeating the same hyperbole multiple times doesn’t make it true. That type of tactic never did.
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A three year old article? Might anything have changed in three years? But I do think there was something else going on. And also has nothing to do with the Siri privacy policy.
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If Apple considers itself upholding the Privacy standards beyond others, it’s better to actually go beyond what others do in practice.
No third parties should be able to listen what is said in private because of frivolous such as improving AI. Once a voice is recorded the user is no longer anonymous, more so when location data is provided. This technical problem should be solved in order to keep AI evolving without Privacy breaches.
No third parties should be able to listen what is said in private because of frivolous such as improving AI. Once a voice is recorded the user is no longer anonymous, more so when location data is provided. This technical problem should be solved in order to keep AI evolving without Privacy breaches.
I’ve always found Siri and its ilk creepy and not seemingly actually very useful, and always turn it off. I prefer sending text messages and emails than talking on the phone and that’s with real human people(!), so why would I want to control searches and other functionality of my phone with my voice? Nothing wrong with typing commands or using a GUI as far as I’m concerned.
This story didn’t really surprise or shock me. I’d be similarly unsurprised if it was revealed that worse happens elsewhere with rival voice assistant services.
This story didn’t really surprise or shock me. I’d be similarly unsurprised if it was revealed that worse happens elsewhere with rival voice assistant services.
You don't even need an Apple ID accompanied with it, Those three Data alone will provide a fairly high probability to identify the user. The site below shows something similar.
https://cpg.doc.ic.ac.uk/individual-risk/
And the problem isn't that alone, it is the definition of privacy from Apple, as Steve Jobs Put it ( D8 Conference Jun 2010 ):
For some reason the embedded media does not support link with time marked, but the 3 min is well worth a watch. At around ~2:30
And to me this incident isn't very Steve's Apple like.
It's the price that comes along with technology and automation. They can't improve it without checking performance. I don't like anyone hearing my personal conversations as much as the next person, but they'll never know me or anything about me, so I could really care less at the end of the day.
As someone who often overhears conversations at work, trust me, it gets old and we'd prefer not to hear it. After a few years you've heard everything and there's nothing fun or exciting about it.
As someone who often overhears conversations at work, trust me, it gets old and we'd prefer not to hear it. After a few years you've heard everything and there's nothing fun or exciting about it.
to be fair, Apple gives you a warning that your recordings will be stored on their servers if you use Siri and for this reason I do not use it.
Plus, anonymizing does not do anything as you can have voice identification
Plus, anonymizing does not do anything as you can have voice identification
I think a lot changed behind the scenes when the former Google guy came over. Siri seems to have improved at a faster rate since that announcement was made than all the years previously. That’s not a compliment, just an observation. Siri still needs a lot of work. Only now, I can see evidence the work is being put in.
I have had a couple of instances where Siri was accidentally triggered on my Apple Watch or iPhone. In nearly every case, something very close to "Hey Siri" had just been spoken (often involving phrases such as "they seriously..."). But by far, my most frequent accidental triggering of Siri occurs by accidentally depressing the digital crown on my Apple Watch. When I go for bike rides I always hit the water drop icon on my Apple Watch control center to disable the screen taps and the digital crown button so I don't accidentally trigger Siri while changing hand positions on my handlebars.
So apple is the creepy guy in the locker room. It's "ok" tho according to you because apple doesn't know your name. The issue is apple being hypocrites
And if the GOV can turn on mics and cameras at will I am sure they can turn on SIRI if they wish to.
Please do not spread those lies. The articles you linked to do not even say full time recording and they only pertains to Amazon not Google.
Worse is HomePod doesn't even have a physical mute switch like competing products. Blind trust is for fools.
