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Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Apple told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that its iPhones do not listen to users without their consent and do not allow third-party apps to do so either, after lawmakers asked the company if its devices were invading users' privacy. Representatives Greg Walden, Marsha Blackburn, Gregg Harper and Robert Latta wrote to Apple's chief executive Tim Cook and Alphabet chief executive Larry Page in July, citing concerns about reports that smartphones could "collect 'non-triggered' audio data from users' conversations near a smartphone in order to hear a 'trigger' phrase, such as 'Okay Google' or 'Hey Siri.'"
In a letter to Walden, an Oregon Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Apple said iPhones do not record audio while listening for Siri wakeup commands and Siri does not share spoken words. Apple said it requires users to explicitly approve microphone access and that apps must display a clear signal that they are listening.
In a letter to Walden, an Oregon Republican who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Apple said iPhones do not record audio while listening for Siri wakeup commands and Siri does not share spoken words. Apple said it requires users to explicitly approve microphone access and that apps must display a clear signal that they are listening.
That's why there's the Reproducible Builds project. Packages have .buildinfo files that save versions of dependencies, recompiling against the same deps should produce bit-to-bit identical results.
It's not yet complete, but 92.8% of packages build reproducibly.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
All this talk of Russians spying/hacking US makes me laugh because compared to CIA, FBI, and NSA they are nothing. These disgusting organizations from US are literally spying on you 24/7 through consumer devices and the US media won't even mention it. Snowden knew wassup and left this shithole.
With all the opt-in going on, this means that they do.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Consent being written into the legalese of the EULA.
...before installing an app/program "nobody" has any idea what they are consenting to.
The average person could be giving up their rights to their first born children every time they install a program/app.
Many installations want consent for collecting data to "improve the product" or "improve customer experience"... theoretically, giving all ones data to the NSA to help prevent terrorism is an improvement for the customer.
... because everyone reads the ToS for every app they blindly install and never bother to remove or check if it's running in the background...