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Can Apple's Siri be trusted? IBM thinks not

Sunday, 27 May 2012 10:00
BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Is Siri safe? Or is IBM trying to hide classified information about hot zpatcho?

The user agreement for Apple’s Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface, states the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple to be converted into text. And by using Siri, it means you agree to Apple having your information, according to WebProNews.

IBM appears to have problems with that. Their employees have to have their own phones reconfigured before using them for IBM business so their memory can be erased if the phones are lost or stolen. IBM also disables Apple’s iCloud.

IBM is concerned that spoken commands returning to Apple servers could reveal classified information.

IBM’s chief information officer Jeanette Horan wants to keep IBM workers informed about computer security. "We're just extraordinarily conservative," Horan said to Technology Review. "It's the nature of our business."

According to Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica, Apple doesn't make it clear what it does with the data it receives from Siri or who gains access to it. But Cheng says not too many companies have gone along with the IBM stand at this point. A poll of companies on Twitter found only some government workers and school employees following a similar policy.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California released a warning about Siri in March.

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