Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption

Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by microtonal on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:27PM (#48465372)

Nobody in the EU would have been upset if they said: we cannot offer this in the EU because we want to shut out competitors from providing alternative LLMs and this is not allowed in Europe. Fine. I don't care.

Many Europeans are upset that Apple blames Europe that they cannot implement this because it would sacrifice privacy. (Which is kind of ironic, because the EU has nearly the best privacy protection worldwide.)

Apple doesn't care about privacy. By default (without ADP), your (i)Messages, Drive files, contacts, calendars, backups of data from third-party apps are not end-to-end encrypted [1]. US law enforcement can request it. EU citizens are not protected because the US can use the CLOUD Act to demand the data. If Apple really cared about privacy, they would have closed that hole long ago.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by abigail95 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @07:34PM (#48469265)

I think that's exactly what people would be upset about as it was the impetus for the DMA in the first place.

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Re:Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied req... by throwaway329847 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @04:42AM (#48473344)

Ah yes, famous EU privacy protections like Chat Control or ProtectEU

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