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)

Mr. Gary Davis:

Of course, and that is the very thing we watch very closely as we are making improvements to Siri, and as we developed it in the first place. We adopt the exact same approach to every update to Siri. We work to ensure that this association cannot be made, so I can certainly say to the Deputy that we have never been in a position to provide Siri data to any third party. We cannot take a person's name or identity and feed it into our servers. We cannot take an extract of a person's voice and feed it into our servers and produce a result. We cannot do that because we set out to make sure we could not do that, and that is what we consider to be privacy by design.