Unintentional, right
Unintentional, right
Right. "Unintentional". Like I believe that for half a second. It would cost them a lot of money to store/record all of that audio. This is 100% intentional.
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>Apple has agreed (PDF) to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads. In the proposed class-action settlement (PDF) -- which comes after five years of litigation -- Apple admitted to no wrongdoing. Instead, the settlement refers to "unintentional" Siri activations that occurred after the "Hey, Siri" feature was introduced in 2014, where recordings were apparently prompted without users ever saying the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Sometimes Siri would be inadvertently activated, a whistleblower told The Guardian, when an Apple Watch was raised and speech was detected. The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted. It's currently unknown how many customers were affected, but if the settlement is approved, the tech giant has offered up to $20 per Siri-enabled device for any customers who made purchases between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024. That includes iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, HomePods, iPod touches, and Apple TVs, the settlement agreement noted. Each customer can submit claims for up to five devices.
Right. "Unintentional". Like I believe that for half a second. It would cost them a lot of money to store/record all of that audio. This is 100% intentional.
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From the post:
>>Apple has agreed (PDF) to pay $95 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant Siri routinely recorded private conversations that were then sold to third parties for targeted ads. In the proposed class-action settlement (PDF) -- which comes after five years of litigation -- Apple admitted to no wrongdoing. Instead, the settlement refers to "unintentional" Siri activations that occurred after the "Hey, Siri" feature was introduced in 2014, where recordings were apparently prompted without users ever saying the trigger words, "Hey, Siri." Sometimes Siri would be inadvertently activated, a whistleblower told The Guardian, when an Apple Watch was raised and speech was detected. The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden, Reuters noted. It's currently unknown how many customers were affected, but if the settlement is approved, the tech giant has offered up to $20 per Siri-enabled device for any customers who made purchases between September 17, 2014, and December 31, 2024. That includes iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, HomePods, iPod touches, and Apple TVs, the settlement agreement noted. Each customer can submit claims for up to five devices.
Bullshit this has happened to me personally with someone else's iphone YEARS ago.
Bullshit this has happened to me personally with someone else's iphone YEARS ago.
100% Text data is cheap and easy to compress. Voice data is not. Especially if you don't want it to be lossy.
This is absolutely intentional. Any manager or boss would see this "bug" and make it high priority to fix because of how much money/storage it was costing.
That is.... Unless they were being paid to do it and make it available to 5-eyes or some other program.
100% Text data is cheap and easy to compress. Voice data is not. Especially if you don't want it to be lossy.
This is absolutely intentional. Any manager or boss would see this "bug" and make it high priority to fix because of how much money/storage it was costing.
That is.... Unless they were being paid to do it and make it available to 5-eyes or some other program.
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