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I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone (simonwillison.net)
submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Not my title! I do think we are being listened to. And location tracked. And it's being passed on to advertisers. Is it apple though? Probably not is my take away from this article, but I don't trust plenty of others, and apple still does

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you have any proof they sold that data? I'd love to know why the plaintiffs settled out of court if they thought they could prove Apple is feeding every voice recording into their ads. They had to pay 5x as much just for slowing down old iPhones, actively selling voice recordings would undoubtedly be worth far more than that.

The issue is that contractors had access to the recordings, which is certainly a breach of privacy, but not a grand conspiracy to target ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not going to play move the goal posts with you all day long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

At what point did I move the goalposts? I never denied that the recordings existed. I simply fail to see how someone at Apple would decide that selling private conversations is worth the insane risk.