The idea of having a device that listens to everything around in your home is unnerving, for me atleast.
The problem with saying "they would never do something like this" or "I have nothing to hide so why do I care" is that your trusting people thousands of miles away from you who are heavily influenced by the government...
If your not comfortable having a policeman sit on your desk while you work on your computer then I might not be a good idea supporting products like these.
Personally, Siri can screw off. I am more than happy to check the weather myself. :)
The reality is that at a minimum, it's an organization of profit motivated people trying to listen to you. Maybe Apple is controlled by nice people today, but how many other companies will justify their own actions by pointing to Apple's practices.
And when those companies are bought and sold, or go out of business after a period of desperation, what happens in those moments?
Justify this with Apple, and ten more organizations follow in those footsteps.
There is no conspiracy. If you don’t want your phone or other device to listen continuously, do not turn on a service that requires it to do that.
It exists to sell me shit and make people money.
Not nefarious, I accept capitalism. But at least let me turn it off.
It's not silently enabled by default. You choose on or off when setting up the device.
A reminder about how Hey Siri privacy works: https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/apple-addresses-privacy-qu...
> In no case is the device recording what the user says or sending that information to Apple before the feature is triggered,” says Apple.
> Instead, audio from the microphone is continuously compared against the model, or pattern, of your personal way of saying ‘Hey Siri’ that you recorded during setup of the feature. Hey Siri requires a match to both the ‘general’ Hey Siri model (how your iPhone thinks the words sound) and the ‘personalized’ model of how you say it. This is to prevent other people’s voices from triggering your phone’s Hey Siri feature by accident.
> Until that match happens, no audio is ever sent off of your iPhone. All of that listening and processing happens locally.