Apple: Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles or sold to anyone for any purpose

Apple last week agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that claimed its Siri voice assistant violated users’ privacy, but the company says that “Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose.”

Apple Inc. via Fox Business:
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Siri has been engineered to protect user privacy from the beginning. Siri data has never been used to build marketing profiles and it has never been sold to anyone for any purpose. Apple settled this case to avoid additional litigation so we can move forward from concerns about third-party grading that we already addressed in 2019. We use Siri data to improve Siri, and we are constantly developing technologies to make Siri even more private.

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MacDailyNews Note: Read Apple’s “Siri, Dictation & Privacy” document, which states in part — “When you use Siri, your device will indicate in Siri Settings if the things you say are processed on your device and not sent to Apple servers. Otherwise, your audio is sent to and processed on Apple servers. Unless you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation, your audio data is not stored by Apple” – here.

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