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It’s been a good 24 hours for defaults. Motion smoothing might stop being the default on TVs. Fitbit has a real shot at making the de-facto default smartwatch for Android users, who desperately need one. And the best default of all: the default opt-out on Siri recordings.
Here’s our story on it: Apple apologizes for Siri audio recordings, announces privacy changes going forward.
A key part of this story is that Apple straight-up apologized. That apology is totally warranted, and I’d like to briefly explain why.
If you haven’t been following all the drama surrounding smart assistants saving your voice on their servers so humans could listen, I wrote a piece about it earlier this month. The main way Apple was (and is) better is it more...
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Apple was a little behind on Siri privacy, now it’s way ahead
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