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  Kids and Siri RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-08 23:25 +0000
    Re: Kids and Siri Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2014-04-10 16:55 +0100

#2316 — Kids and Siri

From the «Siri, fetch me a beer» department:
Title: Siri, You're Messing Up a Generation of Children
Author: Judith Shulevitz
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:00:00 -0400
Link: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117242/siris-psychological-effects-children

One of the unexpected pleasures of modern parenthood is eavesdropping on your
ten-year-old as she conducts existential conversations with an iPhone. “Who
are you, Siri?” “What is the meaning of life?” Pride becomes bemusement,
though, as the questions degenerate into abuse. “Siri, you’re

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On 2014-04-09, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «Siri, fetch me a beer» department:
> Title: Siri, You're Messing Up a Generation of Children
> Author: Judith Shulevitz
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 20:00:00 -0400
> Link: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117242/siris-psychological-effects-children
>
> One of the unexpected pleasures of modern parenthood is eavesdropping on your
> ten-year-old as she conducts existential conversations with an iPhone. “Who
> are you, Siri?” “What is the meaning of life?” Pride becomes bemusement,
> though, as the questions degenerate into abuse. “Siri, you’re

The really disturbing part of that report is 

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| Moreover, thinking of these “friends” and “mentors” as subordinates may
| obscure the fact that many of them will effectively serve as spies. Most
| children probably don’t realize—and might not care—that every question
| they ask Siri is relayed back to servers in Apple’s cloud for analysis
| and kept there for two years. For the first six months, voice records
| are tagged with a number; after that, the number is stripped from the
| recordings. But that doesn’t actually anonymize the data.
`----

I suspect many adults aren't aware of that either.  But how many people
actually use 'Siri' and its ilk?

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