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Apple whistleblower goes public over 'lack of action'

theguardian.com

61 pointsquijoteuniv10 comments

The amount of «telemetrics» these days is out of hand. If you monitor your home network you will be surprised of the data you are giving without any idea. Default should be set at «no data sharing» by law . If you take windows for example, even on maximun privacy, the OS tries to call home double the amount of Apple, which is also a lot.

It's ironic how we have more and more telemetry and yet software is becoming worse and worse.

I don't think it's ironic, I think it's entirely predictable. We're removing people and their brains from all decision making and turning it over to data and algorithms.

If the data doesn't "show" a problem, there is no problem.

I'm all for privacy, but having worked on a few systems that involve audio/video/speech, I always dread having to debug some rare problems/edge cases while not having access to the original files that cause them...

The article doesn’t mention what he wants.

He seems to want Apple to be investigated for privacy law violations related to unauthorized listening to Siri recordings:

"These practices are clearly at odds with the company’s ‘privacy-driven’ policies and should be urgently investigated by data protection authorities and Privacy watchdogs"

Apple is too big to fail, so they can afford to break the rules

It’s a guy who worked on a siri recording grading center, not exactly someone who can judge what data get’s saved inside apple.

Isnt that worse? How did an iPhone recording end up at a third-party?

This recordings must be saved somewhere before some people are asked to listen and grade the feature, I imagine the recording is kept so a developer can debug or train the system if the results are not that good.

Apple needs to ask permissions when they send this kind of stuff (including telemetry) and also give you the option at any time to review all your stuff and delete it.

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