Friday 26 July 2019

Apple users' most intimate and confidential moments are relayed by Siri to contractors

According to a report published by The Guardian, Apple's digital assistant Siri sends personal recordings to contractors. Similar to what Amazon does with its virtual assistant Alexa to improve its understanding of human language, these contractors grade Siri's performance. But some of the recordings that were captured by Siri and sent to be graded included couples having sex and others contained personal and confidential conversations about medical information. Besides Apple and Amazon, Google also does something similar with Google Assistant. But while Amazon and Google allow their users ...

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