Everything you ask Siri is stored by Apple for two years before being deleted, it has been revealed.
This is what happens when you talk to Siri:
- The first time you use Siri, its database assigns you a random number, which it says isn’t connected to your user ID or email address.
- After six months, that number is deleted from that recording, but the file itself remains for another 18 months.
- When you ask Siri something, it can take it a couple of seconds to reply.
- During that pause In that time, Siri pings your vocal request to its vast data centre in North Carolina, which answers it and tells Siri what to say.
- To better learn what kinds of questions people ask, it keeps those sound files for two years before deleting them.
“If a user turns Siri off,” Apple’s Trudy Muller told Wired, “both identifiers are deleted immediately, along with any associated data.”
Via: CNET