French prosecutors said on Monday they are investigating tech giant Apple’s, opens new tab voice assistant Siri after receiving a complaint from a tech researcher accusing the company of illicit data collection.
The probe, which was first reported by the news website Politico, has been entrusted to a police force specialised in cybercrime, the prosecutors’ office in Paris said without providing further details. Tech researcher Thomas Le Bonniec told Reuters that he was the source of the complaint, which was filed by French human rights organisation, the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH).
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