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This is hardly conclusive proof. If this individual had ever put in a doctor's appointment using this label before they are going to get suggestions.

But how does it explain the exact time that was suggested?

Same thing. A previous appointment at the same time. The date is suggested because they selected June 16th so it's just a suggested time from previous calendar entries. I use this feature all the time on my phone.

Except that the article says he just typed "Dr" in the text field. June 16th was suggested by Siri.

When you go to input an appointment in Apple's Calendar app you can do it one of a few ways:

1) From another app, which obviously this author didn't do 2) Tapping the "+" icon on the top corner with a date in the calendar below highlighted. The New Event screen comes up with the highlighted date automatically filled in the Starts and Ends fields. This seems the most likely method if they were manually entering an appointment.

The point is, there is not enough detail to suggest that Apple listens to phone calls when there are other more plausible methods (and certainly more testable) that Siri could have used to obtain the information.

If true, the next question is, does the data Siri learns this way stay on your phone? Nobody worries that the linux 'history' command is spying on their terminal. But if there's "telemetry" involved...

> I have not been creeped out this much in a long time.

Creepy is the new cool. If it wasn't you'd do something about it like put your iThing in the recycling.

And switch to which better alternative? It's not like there really is one...

> which better alternative? It's not like there really is one

The "no alternative" argument is never a good one. We call it "Bad Faith" in philosophy.

There is always an alternative.

Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre put it roughly as:

Even when you are on your knees with a gun to head, you still have a choice. You can choose to die.

Few people today have the courage to embrace such a tough philosophy, but not understanding at least the principle subtracts so much from your life. Total inauthenticity means living as a shadow, "pretending to be yourself" (some pale "acceptable" version of yourself).

This article is better than the dry Wikipedia one in my opinion [1].

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201203...

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