Siri listened in on private conversations, Apple pays out $95M in lawsuit (theverge.com) 4 points by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago ↗ HN
[–] LinuxAmbulance 1y ago ↗ For anyone who believes that phone companies would never listen to daily conversations without consent, this is a wakeup call. [–] zeristor 1y ago ↗ I bet they were listening in on this wake up call too. The scoundrels! [–] LinuxAmbulance 1y ago ↗ 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.
[–] zeristor 1y ago ↗ I bet they were listening in on this wake up call too. The scoundrels! [–] LinuxAmbulance 1y ago ↗ 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.
[–] LinuxAmbulance 1y ago ↗ 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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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 20.1 ms ] thread"We'd notice the bandwidth usage!"
"The CPU would spike and it'd be obvious!"
As it turns out, it was not obvious.