Siri preserves data for two years. Apple reveals.

Apple has finally revealed it. We all know that Siri sends the requests to Apple, and then processes it over there, and respond back to the user.

As revealed to Wired, here’s what Apple has said:

Here’s what happens. Whenever you speak into Apple’s voice activated personal digital assistant, it ships it off to Apple’s data farm for analysis. Apple generates a random numbers to represent the user and it associates the voice files with that number. This number — not your Apple user ID or email address — represents you as far as Siri’s back-end voice analysis system is concerned.

Once the voice recording is six months old, Apple “disassociates” your user number from the clip, deleting the number from the voice file. But it keeps these disassociated files for up to 18 more months for testing and product improvement purposes.

Interesting huh?

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