Who ISN'T listening? Report claims Apple contractors often hear private conversations from Siri

It's official: if you're using a voice-assistant -- pretty much any voice-assistant -- someone could be listening in. The Guardian reports that Apple has joined an ever-growing list of tech companies that listens in on commands uttered through its virtual voice-assistant. Snippets of audio, reports The Guardian, are sent to contractors who are responsible for listening and grading them for accuracy, including whether or not the command was accidental or whether its assistant, Siri, was able to complete the task. As is the case with other similar programs from Google and Amazon, however, a whistleblower says the program has inadvertently swept up audio data that most might find confidential. Those include, according to an unnamed source in the report, conversations between patients and doctors, sex, criminal activity, and official business talk.