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> I think these new features sound great, but I'm not in any hurry to adopt them wholesale. And if you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. I don’t use
by gumby 2y ago
> I think these new features sound great, but I'm not in any hurry to adopt them wholesale.
And if you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. I don’t use Siri and it doesn’t bother me that Apple includes it on all their machines.
- hansvm 2y ago> I don't use Siri That's likely true. Unless you were careful to do a lot more than just disabling it, it does use you though, slurping up quite a bit of data.
- flemhans 2y agoHow?
- hansvm 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647751 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647751
- whoiskevin 2y agoreference? Proof? How is it slurping data if I have it turned off and don't even use it?
- hansvm 2y agoYou have to disable the data slurping for each app. The main toggle just governs whether it responds to voice commands. Previous discussion [0]. Separately, the data Siri sends isn't held to the same differential privacy standards as some of Apple's other diagnostics. They just give you a unique ID and yolo it [1]. Unless personalized device behaviors are somehow less identifiable than all the other classes of data subject to deanonymization attacks (demographics, software/hardware version fingerprints, ...), that unique ID is just to be able to pretend to the courts that they tried (give or take Hanlon's razor). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927657 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39927657 [1] https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictation/ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/ask-siri-dictati...