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notsurewhereireddit t1_ixc3q4s wrote
Reply to comment by tied_laces in Researchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims by Sorin61
Yeah I get that I can turn off Siri for added protection, but how is it not a privacy issue? My phone transcribed a conversation-unbidden-and appears to have been prepared to text that transcript to someone in my contacts list. It wasn’t Siri, because as I mentioned I never initiated that program. Seems like a huge privacy issue to me.
notsurewhereireddit t1_ixbq5ko wrote
Only vaguely related but check this out: The other day at work I was in a meeting with a colleague when I received a text. I didn’t check the phone yet but kept talking. A minute later the phone chimed again reminding me that I hadn’t checked the message yet. When I checked the screen I saw that it was from my immediate supervisor so I unlocked the phone to check the message and saw that there was a ton of text in the text box as though I had typed a long message (maybe 100 words). It was a (poor) transcript of the conversation I was having with my colleague.
Never said “Siri” or anything like it. Fucking phone just about sent a transcript of a conversation with a colleague to my boss.
notsurewhereireddit t1_ixddes1 wrote
Reply to comment by VarietyIllustrious87 in Researchers say iPhone usage data isn't as anonymous as Apple claims by Sorin61
Shrug. Your belief is not a requirement for the truth. This happened to me on Friday, though. I’m kicking myself for hurriedly deleting instead of taking a screenshot first.
I agree, though. If it happened to me I’d imagine it has or will happen to others and that it would be a significant story. It’s positively alarming.