We need a full investigation into Siri's surveillance campaign

I know it’s a comment piece and all, but this kind of content really rubs me the wrong way.<p>It’s totally fair to investigate and regulate companies’ privacy practices. Many of them are downright scary. But we don’t need to deliberately misrepresent them in order to do so. There is no “surveillance campaign”; abusing the term weakens the argument against all of those actual surveillance campaigns out there.

Does this stem from the “Listen for Hey Siri” setting?[1] I’m assuming that means my phone is “listening” at all times in case I say the magic words. What I <i>wasn’t</i> assuming was that snippets of that “listening” would ever leave my phone. It’s unclear to me whether recordings being sent to Apple are a separate setting. If I allow Siri to listen but have turned off Siri analytics[2] was Apple still potentially listening?<p>Even reading the description of the second setting though doesn’t make it clear Apple could be listening to recordings you never intended to make:<p>&gt; Help improve Siri and Dictation by allowing Apple to store and review audio of your Siri and Dictation interactions on this device.<p>If my phone is in my purse and I say something that my phone thinks sounds like “Hey Siri” I wouldn’t consider that an interaction but perhaps Apple would.<p>[1] General &gt; Siri &amp; Search &gt; Listen for “Hey Siri”<p>[2] General &gt; Privacy &gt; Analytics &amp; Improvements &gt; Improve Siri &amp; Dictation

This is why I would love to see more devices with physical disconnect switches for mic and camera.<p>Software just can’t be trusted for this use case.