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Apples handling of Siri snippets back in the frame after letter of complaint to EU privacy regulators

Apple is going through recent questions from its lead information coverage regulator in Europe following a public complaint via a former contractor who printed closing 12 months that staff doing high quality grading for Siri had been robotically overhearing delicate person information. Earlier this week the former Apple contractor, Tho…
Apple is facing fresh questions from its lead data protection regulator in Europe following a public complaint by a former contractor who revealed last year that workers doing quality grading for Siri were routinely overhearing sensitive user data. Earlier this week the former Apple contractor, Tho…

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Author: Natasha Lomas

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  3. "European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year". (June 25, 2020)
  4. "As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". (August 11, 2020)
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  6. "One of the first national coronavirus contacts tracing apps to be launched in Europe is being suspended in Norway after the countrys data protection authority raised concerns that the software, called Smittestopp, poses a disproportionate threat to user privacy includin". (June 15, 2020)
  7. "The European Unions lead data protection supervisor has recommended that a ban on targeted advertising based on tracking Internet users digital activity be included in a major reform of digital services rules which aims to increase operators accountability, among other key goal". (February 10, 2021)
  8. "Mozilla has further beefed up anti-tracking measures in its Firefox browser". (February 24, 2021)
  9. "Apples CEO Tim Cook has urged Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference today echoing many of the points he made in Brussels in person two years ago when he hit out at the data industrial complex underpinning the adtech industry&#8". (January 28, 2021)
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