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Re:Apple is a traditional business by UncleMeat on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @11:48AM (#16978098)
How exactly is Alexa different than Siri on iPhones? Why is one a surveillance speaker but the other isnt? I'm near my phone far more often than I am in my living room.
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Re:Apple is a traditional business by gambiting on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:31PM (#16978630)
You need to press a button to activate Siri. Alexa/Google home are listening at all times.
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Re:Apple is a traditional business by hefeweizen on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @01:36PM (#16979278)
False, "Hey Siri" activates Siri on the iphone (just tried this out). So, it's not different.
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Re:Apple is a traditional business by thisacctforreal on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:14AM (#16985670)
Apple has been a leader in security, and has shown to take privacy seriously.

The "Hey Siri" wake is done completely locally, and is opt-in on top of Siri.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/11/apple-addresses-privacy-qu...

Apple also consistently makes the trade-off of privacy above user-experience; in order to offer similar features to Google photos, they train neural networks on-device.

As well as how seriously they take the biometric data from Touch ID and Face ID, I'm much more comfortable around a HomePod than Alexa.

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