As soon as I finish dictating this message, I will be dumping the Dragon Dictation app from my iPad. Why? Because I just realized that everything I say when I am dictating text goes to Dragon, gets transcribed, and then returns to my screen.
I don’t like having Dragon listen in on my dictation. The app is free and it works well enough, as you can see. Still, I would prefer to do my own typing and keep my privacy.
Apple has added dictation to its latest Mac operating system, Mountain Lion, and it works the same way… same lack of privacy. What happened to the concept of personal computers?
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Well said.
I see mobile device management (MDM)
being used more.
I don’t see it as a desirable trend. We need ways to be sure that the tracking capabilities of mobile devices are turned off when we don’t want to be followed. It’s easy to make them seem to be off when they really aren’t. Battery removal gives the desired result, but try taking the battery out of an iPhone. You can’t.
Siri works the same way.