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Apple to pay $95M to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of snoopy eavesdropping
- st3fan 2y ago"Apple isn’t acknowledging any wrongdoing in the settlement, ... " - Why would Apple settle? Just to make this go away? I cannot believe that "recording conversations and selling the data to advertisers" is something that actually happened. Does anyone? That feels like such a gross departure from their privacy commitments ...
- talldayo 2y ago> I cannot believe that "recording conversations and selling the data to advertisers" is something that actually happened. Why not?
- jki275 2y agoIt's very much the opposite of Apple's brand. Apple simply does not do this.
- talldayo 2y agoYou assume an awful lot for someone that has no executive insight into how Apple operates. How are you so sure?
- jki275 2y agoThat's not an assumption. It's easy enough to look at what Apple does.
- talldayo 2y agoI agree, which is why I'm shocked that anyone can act surprised: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surveil-push-notifications/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve...
- Idesmi 2y agoIt's a company with shareholders. Also they don't even hide that they sell some information for ads targeting.
- jki275 2y agoThat's exactly what they don't do.
- lern_too_spel 2y agoThey absolutely give cookie data to Google for marketing their products, and they absolutely give targeting data to Apple News publishers. Funny how they don't let you uninstall or disable Apple News even on Mac, let alone iOS, which was already known to be locked down for Apple's profit.
- jki275 2y agoFalse. They don't give anything to Google, and I just removed the News app from my phone just to prove it could be done. iOS isn't locked down for "Apple's profit", it's locked down for the users' security. This isn't really controversial, only really hardcore Google shills who don't know anything about Apple would argue otherwise.
- simondanisch 2y agoApple is a very aggressive and ruthless company... Just look at their lobby activities, how they go against the right to repair and how they generally try to ruthlessly lock you into their ecosystem... So this seems to be pretty much on character for me
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoIf their commitment to privacy was more than virtue signaling they wouldn't take billions of dollars a year selling their search users to Google.
- fragmede 2y ago> I cannot believe that "recording conversations and selling the data to advertisers" is something that actually happened. Btw, I own the Brooklyn bridge, would you like to see it? It's for sale! Of course it happened! How do you think Siri looks stuff up on the web? There has to be some sort of identifier that gets sent off, otherwise how else would that work? If that indentifier is sent to, say, a search engine, and that search engine is paying for that traffic, Apple is now taking ad money for Siri searches.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578929