Did you know what the word ‘Siri’ means in Swahili? It means secret. But this is not the case with Apple’s Siri app, because, Big Brother is listening. Whenever you whisper to Siri, everything you say ends up on the tech giant’s servers. Apple revealed that the voice prompts are stored for as long as two years.
Apple-Siri-stores-information-on-servers-for-two-yearsApple’s Mueller noted that privacy advocates have no reason to panic since this data is not connected to a user’s Apple ID, email address or any other personal information. Instead, it’s linked to a key generated at random. The random ID is also stripped once the data has reached a six-month mark threshold.
What happens is whenever you speak to Siri, it transports the command to Apple’s data farm for analysis. The company generates a random set of numbers that represent each user and it associates the voice files with that number. This is the number that represents you as far as the Apple personal voice-activated digital assistant’s back-end voice analysis system is concerned.
Apple-Siri-stores-information-on-servers-for-two-yearsApple’s Mueller noted that privacy advocates have no reason to panic since this data is not connected to a user’s Apple ID, email address or any other personal information. Instead, it’s linked to a key generated at random. The random ID is also stripped once the data has reached a six-month mark threshold.
What happens is whenever you speak to Siri, it transports the command to Apple’s data farm for analysis. The company generates a random set of numbers that represent each user and it associates the voice files with that number. This is the number that represents you as far as the Apple personal voice-activated digital assistant’s back-end voice analysis system is concerned.
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