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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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  5. "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)
  6. "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)
  7. "Googles push to phase out third party tracking cookies aka its Privacy Sandbox initiative is facing a competition challenge in Europe". (November 23, 2020)
  8. "The UK has given up building a centralized coronavirus contacts tracing app and will instead switch to a decentralized app architecture, the BBC has reported". (June 18, 2020)
  9. "A unique device identifier that Apple assigns to each iPhone for third parties to track users for ad targeting aka the IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers) is itself now the target of two new complaints filed by European privacy campaign not-for-profit, noyb". (November 16, 2020)
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