Apple eavesdrop on users

Former employee of Globetech, one of Apple’s partners, confirmed that every day more than 1,000 conversations with Siri were heard. Mostly commands but sometimes personal information or short conversations.

According to Guardian ‘s findings, the recordings by Siri that Apple entrusted to its partners also contained “personal exchanges between doctors and patients, business negotiations, even content related to love.” sex “.

Globetech announced that Apple has terminated its cooperation in classifying and recognizing speech since August 17. After that, 300 employees in the cooperation project with US technology firm were laid off.

Since late July, Apple has been discovered by the press to give its partners a series of short user conversations with Siri, its virtual assistant. The company later explained the purpose of this is to assess Siri’s ability to respond, determining whether it is often in error, misunderstanding, or whether it was accidentally triggered at the wrong time. According to Apple, only 1% of short conversations with Siri have been sent to partners to analyze the data and user identity has been hidden.

Apple has delivered thousands of short conversations with Siri to users for partners to analyze and improve features.

In addition to Apple, a number of technology giants have been secretly listening to users’ conversations without notice.

In April, Bloomberg reported that Amazon uses thousands of people globally to transcribe voice commands collected from users, then return them to software to help improve Alexa’s language recognition. Much of the collected content is described as “mundane” and sometimes “slightly offensive.”

In mid-July, Google was hired by VRT NWS (Belgium) to hire listeners to the assistant virtual assistant, which can contain information such as appointments, personal relationships, names. age … of the user. The channel said that it had listened to 1,000 Google Assistant recordings and found there were quarrels or discussions outside of the father and son.