After its former whistleblower faces the public, Apple is now back on the issues of privacy violations, protesting at the lack of action of authorities. The tech giant was accused of listening to private Siri recordings about nine months ago. Apple said that they already implemented new rules regarding the issue to make their users at ease with their privacy. However, the whistleblower now comes back again and tells the world how Apple still 'wiretaps the world' despite filed cases.  

Ex-Apple employee: Apple 'wiretaps the world' through Siri 

July last year, Apple whistleblower revealed that the company had a program that illegally listens to users' Siri recordings. The said whistleblower named Thomas le Bonniec was one of the ex-contractors at the time that tasked to listen to random people's voice recordings. As described by him, most of the saved recordings have sensitive content that should not be shared by other people. 

"The recordings were not limited to the users of Apple devices but also involved relatives, children, friends, colleagues, and whoever could be recorded by the device. The system recorded everything: names, addresses, messages, searches, arguments, background noises, films, and conversations," he explains. "I heard people talking about their cancer, referring to dead relatives, religion, sexuality, pornography, politics, school, relationships, or drugs with no intention to activate Siri whatsoever."

Now, he goes public again and had sent a letter to all the European data protection regulators, demanding reasons why the case was disclosed. 

As reported via The Guardian, Le Bonniec, 25, worries how "Apple continues to keeps ignoring and violating fundamental rights and continues its massive collection of data."

This was despite their admission months ago that the tech giant was doing illegal recordings of Siri private conversations. 

"I am extremely concerned that big tech companies are basically wiretapping entire populations despite European citizens being told the EU has one of the strongest data protection laws in the world. Passing a law is not good enough: it needs to be enforced upon privacy offenders," said him. 

How Apple listens to Siri recordings

After Le Bonniec revelation was reported, Apple promised to create changes in its system, such as allowing users to opt-in or out of their voice recordings and choose to delete the recordings that Apple had stored. 

However, according to him, these issues are still untackled and unresolved until now. 

"They do operate on a moral and legal grey area," he told the Guardian. "and they have been doing this for years on a massive scale. They should be called out in every possible way." 

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