Should it come as any surprise? And yet the details are shocking and outrageous. A whistleblower working for Apple has revealed to The Guardian that its popular voice activated spying device helpful virtual assistant Siri, now in millions of households, “regularly” records people having sex, and captures other “countless” invasive moments which it promptly sends to Apple contractors for their listening pleasure “quality control”:
Apple contractors regularly hear confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex, as part of their job providing quality control, or “grading”, the company’s Siri voice assistant, the Guardian has learned.
We’ve long pointed out that according to Amazon’s Alexa terms of use, the company collects and stores most of what you say to Alexa (or perhaps what you groan) – including the geolocation of the product along with your voice instructions.
However, what’s not disclosed or at least not well known up to this point is that a “small proportion” of all Siri recordings of what consumers thought were private settings are actually forwarded to Apple contractors around the world, according to the new report. Supposedly this is to ensure Siri is responding properly and can continue to distinguish dictation. Apple says, according to The Guardian, the data “is used to help Siri and dictation… understand you better and recognise what you say”.
But an anonymous current company insider and whistleblower told The Guardian: “There have been countless instances of recordings featuring private discussions between doctors and patients, business deals, seemingly criminal dealings, sexual encounters and so on. These recordings are accompanied by user data showing location, contact details, and app data.”
Contradicting Apple’s defense that these sultry samples are “pseudonymised recordings,” Apple employees can know precisely who is having sex and where, and what time the deed was done.
Apple’s formal response to the Guardian investigation was as follows:
A small portion of Siri requests are analysed to improve Siri and dictation. User requests are not associated with the user’s Apple ID. Siri responses are analysed in secure facilities and all reviewers are under the obligation to adhere to Apple’s strict confidentiality requirements.
Just trust us, Apple appears to be saying. Most of what can be deemed sensitive data is captured through so-called accidental activations by “trigger words,” according to the report, with the highest rates of such occurrences via the Apple Watch and HomePod smart speakers.
“The regularity of accidental triggers on the watch is incredibly high,” the company whistleblower explained. “The watch can record some snippets that will be 30 seconds – not that long but you can gather a good idea of what’s going on.”
The insider continued, “you can definitely hear a doctor and patient, talking about the medical history of the patient. Or you’d hear someone, maybe with car engine background noise – you can’t say definitely, but it’s a drug deal… you can definitely hear it happening. And you’d hear, like, people engaging in sexual acts that are accidentally recorded on the pod or the watch.”
Further less than comforting is just how many across the globe have access to these private moments: “There’s not much vetting of who works there, and the amount of data that we’re free to look through seems quite broad,” the contractor continued. “It wouldn’t be difficult to identify the person that you’re listening to, especially with accidental triggers – addresses, names and so on.”
“Apple is subcontracting out, there’s a high turnover. It’s not like people are being encouraged to have consideration for people’s privacy, or even consider it. If there were someone with nefarious intentions, it wouldn’t be hard to identify [people on the recordings].”
The evidence continues to mount: Siri is a blackmailer’s dream come true… or spy agency, or voyeur, or political adversary, or just plain pervert.
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Me Again. It’s probably just the right few seconds I bet.
So let me get this straight, if you buy a spying tool from a spying company it’s going to spy on you?
Who could have seen that coming? No pun intended.
We all know the pun was intended….
Taking all the fun out of animal husbandry.
Along with your voice instructions??
OOOhh right there, Don’t You dare stop!! A little harder, NO Harder, REAL HARD NOW!!
A few months later Siri has to take medical leave do to over stimulation.
They’ll have better luck listening in on the SETI line than trying to hear any mischief at my pad.
Leon died just recently. He was unique.
Even with the sexy mulatta? Oye como va, mi ritmo.
Sorry, hermano.
Loved Leon Redbone’s “Seduced”….
sad to hear he had died…..great musician.
When you say “….that fucken stupid computer…!” the computer is thinking “…those stupid fucking humans.”
To get seven seconds of me having sex they need to listen for several years.
Does it have to be sex with another person? Yes? Never mind.
Stucky!!!!!!!!???????
Don’t worry.
He’s not listening.
http://mileswmathis.com/bezos.pdf
Mathis: “Pi = 4!” Right, I will give credibility to anything he says, not.
Seriously, 22, being a fanboy of someone who claims Pi = 4 makes you look like a moron who will buy into any damn thing. You need a better class of conspiracy theorist, to paraphrase The Joker.
And this is what I mean about how true evil within government, even in plain view, can be rationalized as bunk by MSM. When you have complete fucking nutbars running around like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory (Pi == 4, Moon Landing == BS, Joos == Pinky and the Brain), it’s easy to pull the wool over the average person’s eyes.
It’s almost as if these nutbars are PSYOPS themselves, n’est-ce pas?
Ok, now how many here have ever heard of an “off” switch?
Well ,we are still doomed and does the phone have to be on to spy? Just asking. No one would want to spy on my sex life anyway. Trust me.
Unfortunately some of these devices ignore the “off” switch. Either don’t have the devices or pull the battery out.
It would be nice if Siri could at least throw in some encouraging words.
Anyone allowing these devices into their home deserves the hand-over of their privacy 24/7. It can’t work otherwise.
Ready for this 1984 world to John Galt it to fix it. If we productive would stop, just stop producing, buying and spending for 90 days, we, the engine of the world would become more respected as we should be and maybe just maybe never be told again of our white privilege nor called a racist just for what we are eating or how we walk down the street. Our only means of fighting is to stop…..surely they will then call us racist for not supporting the economy…surely