Stefan Mileschin

Privacy, Apple has heard of it and lectures others upon it

The Irish Examiner has discovered the extent of how much Apple was invading the privacy of fanboys.

While Apple was lecturing Facebook and Google about privacy, it was listening to huge numbers of recordings from Apple fanboys who were talking to the closest thing to a real woman they could find.

Apple used human contractors to listen to an arduous 1,000 Siri recordings every day to help make the digital assistant better at giving you what you want. Those recordings included personal data and snippets of conversations, one contractor says.

In July, The Guardian reported that contractors also hear some rather personal things, like "confidential medical information, drug deals, and recordings of couples having sex. But the volume of spying had been unknown.

A contractor that spoke with the Irish Examiner said his job involved noting when Siri could actually help or if Siri was triggered accidentally.

The Tame Apple Press points out that the only reason we are hearing this story now is that Apple has temporarily stopped using contractors to listen to Siri conversations, and they have an axe to grind because they have lost their jobs.

Irish Examiner reports that Apple no longer needed the services of Cork, Ireland-based contracting company GlobeTech, which employed the contractor who spoke to the Irish Examiner.

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