Siri records fights, doctor’s appointments, and sex, and contractors hear it

Post by forgotmyhnacc » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 8:40 PM UTC

Aloha wrote: post #28

forgotmyhnacc wrote: post #24

Many HNers have a weird belief that Apple is somehow a privacy focused company, despite it actually being no more private than Facebook or Google. The main concern people have (voice assistants beside) is data gathering for ads, which Apple does for their app search, among other places. Also, their data centers are in China, which gives Chinese authorities full access to their iCloud account. If you want privacy, don…

Their datacenter for Chinese customers are in china. I expect them to take reasonable precautions, mistakes do get made. I'm not a user of voice assistants, I'd rather use the device directly, its faster anyhow. To quote from the article "Voice assistants appear to be yet another instance where a technology has been developed and adopted faster than its consequences have been fully thought-out."

Post by Havoc » Sat, Jul 27, 2019, 8:56 PM UTC

Vendan wrote: post #97

jwatt wrote: post #90

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Does Mycroft need a network connection for voice recognition to work? I wasn't able to conclusively tell from a quick scan of their website but their Get Started document[1] says "Mycroft devices need to be paired with your Mycroft Home account to work", which sounds like it does. I had been intending to do something similar to you, but using Snips[2] since it supposedly has on-device voice recognition (and use of Ru…

The Mycroft Home stuff covers Google Speech to Text, so I'm betting that overall speech processing is done in the cloud, though I'm sure wake-word detection is done locally. https://mycroft.ai/documentation/home-mycroft-ai-pairing/

Post by matt-attack » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 1:26 AM UTC

kdmccormick wrote: post #76

matt-attack wrote: post #27

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As an aside, it’s highly ignorant to refer to pedophilia as a “crime”. Please be aware that pedophilia is not in fact a crime at all. It in fact refers to the attraction one had toward pre-pubescent children. Be aware that this is entirely different than being a child rapist. I assume you meant to say “child rapists” in your statement. In the same way it’s generally accepted that homosexuals and heterosexuals don’t c…

"Child rapist" is pretty specific. Consumption/distribution of CP is also heinous and harmful.

Post by thekyle » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 3:04 AM UTC

justapassenger wrote: post #98

Apple is playing fairly dangerous game, positioning themselves as some kind of saint, or tron, fighting for the user. Firing shots at all tech companies for collecting data can backfire at them. Like it does in this case. It shows that they’re likely overselling what they can do without your data, and to deliver they your data anyway - they just try to be quiet about it. Of course there are different level of data co…

Post by jklein11 » Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 5:11 PM UTC

Symmetry wrote: post #79

schuke wrote: post #75

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I would bet it’s closer to 0.99% otherwise wouldn’t they have phrased it something like “slightly more than 0.1%” to make it sound smaller?

If I was talking to a reporter and the real number was .01% I would still say "less than 1%" to make sure I was properly understood. The whole reason we use percentages and say "one percent" instead of "point zero one" is that some people tend to get confused with decimals but not with integers. EDIT: And part of this is just how we say things. "Twenty" is just easier to parse in a conversation than "Two Oh" even tho…