Korea Fines TikTok and Apple for Data Use
South Korea’s privacy watchdog fined TikTok 10.3 billion won for unlawfully collecting and using behavioral data from about 9.45 million users for personalized ads, due to inadequate user notification. Apple was fined 252 million won for collecting Siri voice recordings and transcripts without consent, with corrective orders and a broader emphasis on overseas data transfers.
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About Siri
Siri is a virtual assistant and chatbot purchased, developed, and popularized by Apple, which is included in the iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, macOS, Apple TV, audioOS, and visionOS operating systems. It uses voice queries, gesture based control, focus-tracking and a natural-language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Internet services. With continued use, it adapts to users' individual language usages, searches, and preferences, returning individualized results.
Everything about Siri →- Inception
- 2011
- Website
- https://www.apple.com/siri/, https://www.apple.com/tr/siri/, https://www.apple.com/uk/siri/, https://www.apple.com/fr/siri/