Let's have some fun with Siri, and a little chat on the subject of privacy while having virtual assistants listening in.
Ah, virtual assistants. Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple's Siri… the forgotten Microsoft Cortana…
The thing is, in order for it to hear"Hey, Siri" in the first place, it actually listens all the time. All virtual assistants with similar functionality do. Listening and waiting for the catchphrase. So it made me think about the privacy aspect of this, particularly after we've seen headlines like:According to Apple, in 2019 less than 1% of Siri's daily activations were being sent to contractors whose job was to determine whether it was activated accidentally or on purpose.
Online privacy is a mess, and we won't be going into the ethics of it all, but rather, we'll have some fun with Siri. We'll try out phrases that might trigger it to listen on accident, and thus potentially transmit your private conversations to Apple without your knowledge. You better not be at any fancy events where people call each other sirs and madams, because your Apple Watch could easily get triggered all the time, listening in on those conversations about yachts, and perhaps most importantly – wasting that precious battery.In case you know people named Terry, Cherry, Berry, Ciri, mostly depending on your inflection you can definitely pronounce them in a way that would get Siri to perk up, and start listening to the rest of that conversation.
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