So how do you limit the data to which Siri has access (contacts, etc.) without totally disabling Siri?
Siri isn't an app. it's part of the OS/UI. you might as well ask to disable the touch screen's "access" to contacts, websites, etc. of course then the phone would be unusable.
Siri isn't an app. it's part of the OS/UI. you might as well ask to disable the touch screen's "access" to contacts, websites, etc. of course then the phone would be unusable.
But the touchscreen doesn't send all my "User Data" to Apple, its subsidiaries, and its "agents", like Siri does. Also, the fact that Siri is doing so is buried deep in the Apple SLA (a 10 page document) that you only see on the phone when you are initially setting up the phone. Siri is disabled on my iPhone, just like all the similar crap apps from Google and Samsung are disabled on my S4.
But the touchscreen doesn't send all my "User Data" to Apple, its subsidiaries, and its "agents", like Siri does. Also, the fact that Siri is doing so is buried deep in the Apple SLA (a 10 page document) that you only see on the phone when you are initially setting up the phone. Siri is disabled on my iPhone, just like all the similar crap apps from Google and Samsung are disabled on my S4.
yes, the Siri AI is actually running on Apple servers if you want to use that service of it. but Apple is not data mining that info like Google does. it's not compiling and profiling you into a whole data base "all about you" from it and other Apple apps to sell ads/services like Google does - you're anonymous on that side of the connection. and don't pretend there is an equivalency of some kind. there just isn't.
and if you still don't like the limited things it does, as you note you can turn it off. try turning off Android's personally identified data collection. you wind up with a brick.
yes, the Siri AI is actually running on Apple servers if you want to use that service of it. but Apple is not data mining that info like Google does. it's not compiling and profiling you into a whole data base "all about you" from it and other Apple apps to sell ads/services like Google does - you're anonymous on that side of the connection. and don't pretend there is an equivalency of some kind. there just isn't.
Apple has other ways of selling targeted ad space. For example, they use our personal info and preferences gathered from iTunes, plus our location.
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and if you still don't like the limited things it does, as you note you can turn it off. try turning off Android's personally identified data collection. you wind up with a brick.
That's not my experience. Can you give an example of what you mean?
On Android, you can turn off personalized search results, location history, etc. That does not stop search from working. You can do the same for the web as well, via your Google Dashboard.
Obviously if you signed out of your Google account, then things like Mail and Notes would not work, but if you wiped out Siri's access to Contacts, you'd be in the similar situation of not being able to say "Siri, call Mom".
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Originally Posted by matrix07
This is just getting better and better.
Master Key’ Gives Bad Guys Access to Almost Any Android Phone.
There's already a post about this on the site.
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Originally Posted by runbuh
So how do you limit the data to which Siri has access (contacts, etc.) without totally disabling Siri?
Siri isn't an app. it's part of the OS/UI. you might as well ask to disable the touch screen's "access" to contacts, websites, etc. of course then the phone would be unusable.
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Originally Posted by PScooter63
So where's the "Decline" button?
Probably the "back" button, although the dialog box ought to make this clearer.
Correct. Pressing the back button gets you out of it. Pressing the back button to get out of something is a common thing in Android.
Samsung, Jay-Z and Android.
I wish AI would just not post Android crap on AI.
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Originally Posted by Alfiejr
Siri isn't an app. it's part of the OS/UI. you might as well ask to disable the touch screen's "access" to contacts, websites, etc. of course then the phone would be unusable.
But the touchscreen doesn't send all my "User Data" to Apple, its subsidiaries, and its "agents", like Siri does. Also, the fact that Siri is doing so is buried deep in the Apple SLA (a 10 page document) that you only see on the phone when you are initially setting up the phone. Siri is disabled on my iPhone, just like all the similar crap apps from Google and Samsung are disabled on my S4.
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Originally Posted by runbuh
But the touchscreen doesn't send all my "User Data" to Apple, its subsidiaries, and its "agents", like Siri does. Also, the fact that Siri is doing so is buried deep in the Apple SLA (a 10 page document) that you only see on the phone when you are initially setting up the phone. Siri is disabled on my iPhone, just like all the similar crap apps from Google and Samsung are disabled on my S4.
yes, the Siri AI is actually running on Apple servers if you want to use that service of it. but Apple is not data mining that info like Google does. it's not compiling and profiling you into a whole data base "all about you" from it and other Apple apps to sell ads/services like Google does - you're anonymous on that side of the connection. and don't pretend there is an equivalency of some kind. there just isn't.
and if you still don't like the limited things it does, as you note you can turn it off. try turning off Android's personally identified data collection. you wind up with a brick.
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Originally Posted by Alfiejr
yes, the Siri AI is actually running on Apple servers if you want to use that service of it. but Apple is not data mining that info like Google does. it's not compiling and profiling you into a whole data base "all about you" from it and other Apple apps to sell ads/services like Google does - you're anonymous on that side of the connection. and don't pretend there is an equivalency of some kind. there just isn't.
Apple has other ways of selling targeted ad space. For example, they use our personal info and preferences gathered from iTunes, plus our location.
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and if you still don't like the limited things it does, as you note you can turn it off. try turning off Android's personally identified data collection. you wind up with a brick.
That's not my experience. Can you give an example of what you mean?
On Android, you can turn off personalized search results, location history, etc. That does not stop search from working. You can do the same for the web as well, via your Google Dashboard.
Obviously if you signed out of your Google account, then things like Mail and Notes would not work, but if you wiped out Siri's access to Contacts, you'd be in the similar situation of not being able to say "Siri, call Mom".
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Originally Posted by SockRolid
99 problems and spyware is one.
*LOL*
Well, yet one more reason why I'd use two tin cans and some clothesline before I'd use an Android phone for anything other than... well, for anything.