Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
TL;DR
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI "ambient listening" and users' privacy. It says the raw audio from the new features "is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.
Nauti's Take
Publishing the architecture before the features ship is real progress and finally gives privacy officers something they can audit against. The limit is that a whitepaper is no substitute for an independent audit, and the people in the room who get picked up by the microphone never consented to any of it.
Companies with sensitive meetings should keep device policy ahead of feature enthusiasm.
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