David Hanak Last week, information appeared on the web that Apple is hiring external companies to evaluate some Siri commands. The British Guardian obtained the confession of one of the people who are dedicated to this and brought a rather sensational report about the possible leakage of personal data. Apple is suspending the entire program based on this case.
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Amaya Toman The program called "Siri grading" was nothing more than sending randomly selected short audio recordings, according to which a person sitting at a computer was supposed to evaluate whether Siri understood the request correctly and offered an adequate response. The audio recordings were completely anonymized, without any mention of the owner's personal information or Apple ID. Despite this, many consider them dangerous, as a recording of a few seconds can contain sensitive information that the user may not want to share.
Following this case, Apple said that it is currently ending the Siri grading program and will look for new ways to verify Siri's functionality. In future versions of the operating systems, each user will have the option of participating in a similar program. Once Apple has given its consent, the program will start again.
According to the official statement, it was a program intended purely for diagnostic and development needs. Roughly 1-2% of the total Siri entries from around the world were analyzed in this way every day. Apple is no exception in this respect. Intelligent assistants are regularly checked in this way and it is a common practice in the industry. If there really was complete anonymization of all recordings, including the minimum possible length of recordings, the probability of leaking any sensitive information is very small. Even so, it is good that Apple has faced this case and will offer a more specific and transparent solution in the future.
Source: Tech Crunch
