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One of the things Apple is known for is taking technology and delivering an integrated solution that is super easy for the non-technical user to use. Apple has done the same with security. If you are a normal user that is not being actively targeted by a nation state, just buying and using a Mac or an iPhone with the default options results in a pretty secure by default scenario.

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Unless you use Siri, in which case random contractors might listen to anything you intentionally or unintentionally say to Siri.

Source on this?

You couldn’t pay me to use a voice assistant, much less would I ever have a voice assistant in my home (Dear God, it scares me that people do this) - but AFAIK Siri doesn’t do this like Google does.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/apple-apologizes-for-listeni...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830120/apple-contractor...

The end result of this was, Apple brought the operation in-house and it's also now opt-in.

Wow. Goddamn hypocrites. I’m honestly not shocked but I wish I was.

So Apple’s ‘focus on privacy’ is pretty much just PR bullshit, then. That sucks. Was hoping for at least one last bastion of privacy.

Are "in-house" listeners supposed to be an improvement?

"it's also now opt-in."

I believe this is the improvement you are looking for.

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