Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Data Collection by Digital Assistants: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to go on to some of the quotes from the whistleblower. What he said was that a number of different words that were picked up wrongly by the iPhone that would trigger Siri and that created a situation where there was inadvertent recordings. He said that they were only encouraged to report these accidental activations as technical problems and there was no specific procedures to deal with sensitive recordings, so we are talking here about conversations between doctors and patients, criminal dealings, and sexual encounters between individuals. People want to know if these things happened. If they happened, what precautions and what actions has Mr. Davis's organisation taken since then to improve on that? He said there was no obligation on the staff to deal with them, other than having to report them as technical problems. People would have concerns about that, so can Mr. Davis relay those concerns people might have for us?

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