Apple Inc users will be able to opt out of the company reviewing their conversations with voice assistant Siri under measures announced on ...
REUTERS: Apple Inc on Wednesday said it would quit its default practice of retaining audio recordings of the requests users make to its Siri personal assistant and limit human review of what audio it does collect to its own employees rather than contractors.
Increased public and political scrutiny of data privacy practices have forced greater transparency from Silicon Valley companies, with Alphabet Inc's Google pausing reviews of audio recordings from its Google assistant service for all purposes in all languages after a leak of Dutch audio data. But Apple tapped humans to improve the service, a process that the company's researchers have in the past told Reuters can cut speech recognition error rates in half.Apple says the number of audio recordings reviewed was small - less than 0.2 per cent of total requests - but users had no way to opt out of having audio retained and reviewed by humans except turning Siri off altogether.
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