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neya • yesterday at 6:58 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

> Does Apple do the same thing?

Yes, they did:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-pay-95-million-settle-si...

    Apple routinely recorded their private conversations after they activated Siri unintentionally, and disclosed these conversations to third parties such as advertisers.

Can you prove they aren't actively doing it now?

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matwood • yesterday at 7:07 PM

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-clarifies-siri-priv...

"Apple has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles, never made it available for advertising, and never sold it to anyone for any purpose," Apple said on Wednesday.

Unintentionally activating Siri and then recording is very different from the active listening things going on. Shared with advertisers was speculation.

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Brendinooo • yesterday at 7:00 PM

>Yes, they did

This has nothing to do with the specific question I asked, and I'm not sure why you'd think so unless Roku has some kind of Siri-like feature (which wasn't what I was intending when I asked regardless). (also, that's a dead link)

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