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  • Apple suspends Siri quality control program, will let users opt out in update

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    Soli said:
    This wasn't a big issue since the data was already anonymized and yet they're taking even more steps to help ensure user security. I wish more companies acted this way.
    Anonymizing is great for structured data, where you can delete the sensitive data fields.  But for listening to a human voice, anonymizing does not make sense.  People don't talk in "structured fields".

    Apple has violated the GDPR rules in Europe because Apple did not ask an explicit permission to the user.  Maybe this is the reason Apple temporarily stopped the quality assurance and will ask an explicit permission in future, but anyhow Apple  (like Google) can expect to get a fine for this violation. 

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  • Google Assistant voice recordings reviewed by humans include private conversations

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    gatorguy said:
    Google doesn't need defending in this case from what I can tell.

    I've read original Dutch article which has a lot more comments and references than the translated English article and if this is correct then Google clearly violated the GDPR regulations.    The Belgian privacy commission has already opened an inquiry and let people make a formal complaint if they feel that Google has violated their privacy. 

    If you think that Google does not need to defend itself, you are naive.  The fines in GDPR violations are huge.
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  • OpenID Foundation says 'Sign in with Apple' has critical gaps, urges changes

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    You’re making the curious assumption that OpenID is correct in their analysis or that their goals are Apple’s goals. 

    Just because someone says Apple is doing it wrong doesn’t mean they are. 
    You are making the curious assumption that everything that comes from Apple is secure.   Maybe you confuse security with data privacy

    The track record of the security in Apple products has some serious hickups: the macOS root access bug in High Sierra is the perhaps the most known example.




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  • App Store continues to vastly outpace Google Play in consumer spending

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    MacPro said:
    It must be a nightmare for Android developers when so few users update and so many versions of the OS out there on so many disparate types of hardware.
    No it isn't.  Being a developer for both iOS and Android, I can make a decent living because I develop my apps for both platform.   It is 1000 times more difficult to come up with a new profit making idea than to port a profit making app to the other platform

    80% of my apps would be loss making if they were only available on a single platform
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  • Apple's iPads are transforming students' lives in multilingual European classrooms

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    ajl said:
    frantisek said:
    I wonder about that multilingual environment. I do use iPhone like that and it is plain horrible experience. Mainly switching two languages, occasionally up to six. Even two languages are nightmare as apps or iOS, no idea where is problem, do not remember what language was used in each conversation or chat so I constantly switching keyboard or typing or dictating with wrong one. In this particular case I can not call iPhone smartphone until it will remember language on conversation/contact base.
    ? Mine does.

    I am living in Belgium with 3 official languages (Dutch, French and German) and with a a very prominent role for English (NATO and EU headquarters are here).  It is not uncommon to have sentences  or even words with a mix of languages.  iOS and macOS have very limited support for multilingual environments.  And I mean multilingual in the sense of simultaneously supporting multiple languages.  

    If I use a browser I want to have the user interface (menu, ...) in English but the content of the page in Dutch.  If I use a spreadsheet it is the same:  the function names like sum() must be in English but the content (e.g. date formats) in Dutch.  This concept is unsupported in iOS or macOS, but the majority of Dutch speaking Belgians wants it this way

    Siri cannot cope with a streetname like Desguinlei (a main road in Antwerp), where the first part "Desguin" is French and the 2nd part "lei" is Dutch.  No matter how you pronounce it Siri cannot understand it and hence cannot find the route to it. And if you type the word Desguinlei in Apple Maps, it says something that no human can guess what it is. 

    Also multilingual support in Safari is non existing.  You cannot change the settings of Safari to "please give me the Dutch version of a webpage, fall back to the French version if Dutch is not available and then fall back to English". This very neat feature is foreseen in the http protocol and Firefox does support it,  Safari doesn't. 

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