Siri is that trusted iPhone assistant who you believe is talking
directly and only to you. Siri has become a useful resource
for many – someone to assist with dictation or Web
searches, or someone to simply act as your own George Glass when
you've got no one else (I've been looking to make my first
Brady Bunch reference for some time).
But here too is a potential concern for employers in an area
that we have been discussing with greater frequency: the
protection of trade secrets and avoidance of data breaches.
Because of concerns over Siri's loose lips, IBM recently
decided to ban employee conversations with Siri in its
workplaces. As Max
Eddy at Geekosystem describes the Siri process, "Siri
works by recording your query, whisking it away to a data
processing center over your data connection, and then returning the
results. The heavy lifting of natural language processing is
done elsewhere, as well as on your phone. Apple stores your
voice queries at its data
