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  • Apple Contractors Reportedly Overhear Sensitive Information and Sexy Times Thanks to Siri

    07/27/2019 5:33:14 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 30 replies
    gizmodo ^ | 07/27/2019 | Alyse Stanley
    First Amazon, then Google, and now Apple have all confirmed that their devices are not only listening to you, but complete strangers may be reviewing the recordings. Thanks to Siri, Apple contractors routinely catch intimate snippets of users’ private lives like drug deals, doctor’s visits, and sexual escapades as part of their quality control duties, the Guardian reported Friday. As part of its effort to improve the voice assistant, “[a] small portion of Siri requests are analysed to improve Siri and dictation,” Apple told the Guardian. That involves sending these recordings sans Apple IDs to its international team of contractors...