Comment by neya

25 days ago

> 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?

edit: link

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matwood  25 days ago

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.

  • neya  25 days ago

    A billion dollar company's public statement defending itself of a crime it was accused of committing and is sued for, is the source of truth now and what it was actually accused of doing is considered speculation? Sure.

Brendinooo  25 days ago

>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)

  • neya  25 days ago

    You did mention "monetizing everything you do (on your television)", my answer was for that part. Again, my question to you is - it's closed source, do you have proof they aren't actually doing it? Or are you going to wait for another half a decade for another lawsuit to find out?

    My point is, it's a for-profit corporation. And a really efficient one. They don't care about anyone's privacy or anything else. Only profits. History has proof - battery gate, siri lawsuit, etc.