"Apple" has stopped listening to user conversations via the application "Siri"

Saturday – 03 August 2019 AD
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London: Middle East

Apple prevented contractors from listening to recordings made via Siri's "quality badessment" voice calls after the UK Guardian published a report detailing details of the incident's hearings.
The company said it would not restart the program until a thorough review of the procedure would have been completed. She is committed to adding a feature that allows users to completely unsubscribe from the QA system during the subsequent update of the application.
Apple said: "We are committed to providing a superior Siri application experience while protecting the privacy of our users, and during our in-depth review we will suspend a comprehensive evaluation process. program, users will have the right to choose to participate in the evaluation. "
Subcontractors working for Apple in Ireland said that they had not said when they would be at work Friday morning, but that they had to go home the weekend after asking them shut down the system around the world. Place until new order.
The badessment was suspended following a report in the Guardian last week, according to which company subcontractors had "regularly" listened to confidential information during the process. Evaluation, including drug sales and medical information on patients.
Although Apple informed users that Siri application data could be used to help better understand and identify what was in it, the company did not explicitly disclose that the procedure required that subcontractors listen a random set of Siri records.
It is worth mentioning that Apple is not the only one to use on-call listening technology to guarantee quality. Amazon and Google also use subcontractors to check the quality of voice badistants, according to information provided by the Bloomberg agency. Both companies

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