A: Does your mobile phone company listen to your private conversations?
B: Yes
A: Does your mobile phone company save your private conversations?
B: For sure.
A: Does your mobile phone company sell your private conversations to 3rd parties?
B: No doubt on that.
You think that I exaggerated it a little? Absolutely not. These are no allegations but the unfortunate truth on today's world. Most of us had the following conversation for sure at least once:
"I was talking about [cats] and [my phone/my app/my search engine] showed me [cat] products in its advertisements." (Which is exactly true.)
Apple recently agreed to pay $95 million to resolve a lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed that Apple's Siri assistant, which is activated by voice, SECRETLY RECORDED and SHARED users' private conversations.
After these things were discovered, Apple said they were sorry for not meeting their own high(?) standards. They also said they will delete any recordings that accidentally started Siri. (Oh, thank you for that.)
"Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users' privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant."
"The lawsuit was brought against Apple following a 2019 report from The Guardian that disclosed that third-party contractors were listening in on private conversations of its users issuing voice commands to Siri as part of its efforts to improve the quality of its product."
"Following the revelations, Apple apologized for not "fully living up to our high ideals" and subsequently introduced an opt-in to help Siri improve by learning from the audio samples of their requests. It also said it will remove any recording that's determined to be an inadvertent trigger of Siri."
"Google, which has also faced accusations with its voice assistant back in 2019, is battling a similar lawsuit in the U.S. District Court."
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