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Apple can hear couples having sex through nearby iPhones, ex-employee
To improve ‘Siri’, Apple has been listening in on intimate moments of its 1.4 billion users globally, including couples having sex.
About a month prior, The Guardian disclosed that Apple employees would consistently tune in to and grade Siri recordings, which were intended to be private. This included medical information, drug deals and even records of couples having intercourse.
Presently a report by Irish Examiner discloses that the circumstance is substantially more severe at Apple.
What's happening at Apple?
Globetech, Apple's contractor was compelled to fire the agreements of around 300 employees unexpectedly. Considerably, the rest of the employees currently need to listen to approximately 1,000 conversations per shift. Be that as it may, neither Globetech nor Apple commented on the precise numbers.
"Mostly it was users with Canadian, Australian or UK accents [who were heard] and there was a smaller team working on users with European languages," says the employee.
Why does Apple do this?
The employee also disclosed that the employees need to transcribe and grade the records to see when Siri was triggered and whether users were happy with Siri's response.
The employee also told that the recordings that they listen to were anonymous and typically very short. But now and then people would reveal their data in the snippets. The employee shared that though he understood why the firm was indulging in the practice, he also agreed why people would think that the act breached their privacy, particularly since Apple didn't tell individuals of their techniques to improve Siri.
Is Apple a fraud?
While Apple mustn't be the leading brand doing acts this way, and organisations like Amazon, Facebook and even Google have as of late disclosed their interest in comparable practices, it is Apple who typically hurls the ace in the hole of 'Security' being their top need at the organisation. The organisation has over and over advanced themselves as the primary tech organisation clients can trust.
In a statement to the Irish Examiner, Apple said it "is committed to customer privacy and made the decision to suspend Siri grading while we conduct a thorough review of our processes."
