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Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence


Executive Summary - Lumia’s Research Team revealed that messages dictated via Siri, including WhatsApp and iMessage are not sent to the Private Cloud Compute. In fact, there is no assurance as to what Apple does with these messages.

From promising robust security measures to developing localized models that process data directly on devices, Apple has positioned itself as a champion of privacy and productivity. The heavy processing already occurred (reasoning the target application is WhatsApp, who the recipient is, and the message to send) so why is it sent externally, and to a server that isn’t part of Private Cloud Compute? Lumia’s platform provides full visibility into AI-related data flows across thousands of applications and protocols, including hidden behaviors like those we uncovered in Siri.

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