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Siri is always listening. Are you OK with that?

Posted on September 11, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Lisa Eadicicco reports:

Siri will be able to perform an important new trick when Apple’s next iPhones come out.

The virtual assistant will always have an ear open, listening for users to summon it, ever ready to answer questions or to assist with certain tasks.

[…]

There are a lot of unanswered questions around these “always listening” devices, such as how they can use the data and who they can share it with.

“[The license agreements] have an extraordinarily wide latitude,” Bruce Schneier, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law, said to Business Insider. “And that’s a huge worry.”

Read more on Business Insider.

Thanks to Joe Cadillic for this link.

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