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Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks about Siri during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 4, 2018
APPLE has agreed to pay $95 million (£76m) to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to spy on people, it was reported on Thursday.
The proposed settlement filed in a US federal court in Oakland, California, would resolve a five-year old lawsuit alleging that Apple secretly activated Siri to record conversations through iPhones and other devices equipped with the virtual assistant for more than a decade.
The alleged recordings occurred even when people didn’t seek to activate the virtual assistant with the trigger words “hey, Siri.”
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GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN
