Siri listened in on private conversations, Apple pays out $95M in lawsuit

theverge.com

For anyone who believes that phone companies would never listen to daily conversations without consent, this is a wakeup call.

I bet they were listening in on this wake up call too. The scoundrels!

I'm just confused by the number of people on this site that are adamant that their phones cannot possibly be listening in on them 24/7 and sending data back to Apple or Google on what they overhear.

"We'd notice the bandwidth usage!"

"The CPU would spike and it'd be obvious!"

As it turns out, it was not obvious.

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