{"id":11308,"date":"2015-05-23T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2015-05-23T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T22:28:01","slug":"whose-phone-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/whose-phone-is-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Phone Is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2015\/05\/22\/whose-phone-is-this\/\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bitsplitting.org\/2015\/05\/22\/whose-phone-is-this\/\">\n<p>The problem to my mind is not that Siri shares my name and contact information, but that it goes a step further, showing not only my main telephone number, but my physical address, all my telephone numbers, email addresses, as well as my AIM, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. It also happily provides my birthdate, the names of my wife, mom, dad, brother, heck, the names of <em>any person I have assigned a relationship<\/em> to.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you don&rsquo;t <em>have to share all this information<\/em> with whatever stranger manages to pick up your phone. Simply disable Siri access from the lock screen, and nobody will be able to access your private information using it. Of course, this means no airline employee who finds your phone tucked between the seats will be able to easily return your phone to you, either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&rsquo;s no great solution here because of the classic privacy vs. convenience trade-off. Another option would be to disable Siri on the lock screen and use the Health app&rsquo;s &ldquo;Medical ID&rdquo; card, which is accessible by swiping right at the lock screen and then tapping Emergency.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jalkut: The problem to my mind is not that Siri shares my name and contact information, but that it goes a step further, showing not only my main telephone number, but my physical address, all my telephone numbers, email addresses, as well as my AIM, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. It also happily provides my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[176,1202,31,85,355,247],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-contacts","tag-health-app","tag-ios","tag-iphone","tag-privacy","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}