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The document discusses an article that addresses privacy questions around Apple's new "Hey Siri" and Live Photo features on the iPhone. It summarizes the article, noting that the new features allow the phone to listen at all times, even when not plugged in, but Apple ensures user information stays local until shared. The document then discusses searches on Google and Yahoo about this topic, finding similar results including the original article. It analyzes one article found using the TRAPP method, noting opinions about Apple's privacy claims. Database searches find two relevant journal articles on similar topics.

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The document discusses an article that addresses privacy questions around Apple's new "Hey Siri" and Live Photo features on the iPhone. It summarizes the article, noting that the new features allow the phone to listen at all times, even when not plugged in, but Apple ensures user information stays local until shared. The document then discusses searches on Google and Yahoo about this topic, finding similar results including the original article. It analyzes one article found using the TRAPP method, noting opinions about Apple's privacy claims. Database searches find two relevant journal articles on similar topics.

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Assignment 1: Information Literacy


Bernita A. Johnson
On September 11, 2015 techcruch.com posted and article entitled Apple
Addresses Privacy Questions About Hey Siri And Live Photo Features. The
article is about Apples iPhone and the new iOS9 operating system. The article
is raising the question of privacy and security of the iPhones Live Photo and
Hey Siri features. The new features allow the phone to be listening all the time,
even when not plugged in. Apple has ensured its users that the information
stays local to your device until you tell it to do otherwise. The Live Photo
feature records 1.5 seconds before your photo and 1.5 seconds after. Apple
states that the information is not made permanent or sent to iCloud until after
the user saves the photo. Apple also ensure that if a user deactivates Siri then
all of the current identifier information is deleted and a user must start all over
again to activate it. The article in summary talks about Apple needing to
balance user personalization and convenience with ensured security and
privacy for its consumers.
Using the key words Apple and privacy the search engines Google
and Yahoo revealed additional articles on the same topic. The Google search
revealed an article from Forbes. The article is entitled Apple Privacy May Not
Be As Private As You Think. The Yahoo search revealed an article from
MacRumors entitled Apple Explains Privacy Policy Behind Hey Siri and Live
Photos. The Google and Yahoo searches were very similar and the results were
almost identical for the first 5 listings. Both search engines revealed the
original techcruch.com article. For this particular topic, I cannot identify one
engine as being better than the other but my typical user preference is using
Google, for no other reason than it being more aesthetically pleasing in my
opinion.
The article I will TRAPP is Apple Privacy May Not Be As Private As You
Think.
1. Time- The article was written on August 24, 2015 and does not appear to
have been updated at all.

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Assignment 1: Information Literacy


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2. Relevance- The article compares Apple to Google in terms of privacy. It is
not exclusively about Apple and its privacy. The article contributes to
discussion about Apple and its privacy but is not exclusively about Apple.
3. Authority- The author Theo Priestley is a writer. He writes about
technology but does not claim to be a technology expert.
4. Accurate- The information appears to be somewhat fact based but mostly
a comparison and contrast of Apple and Google. The opinion of the writer
seems to be that Apple may not be as private as they appear. It is not
supported evidence but he details his opinion.
5. Purpose- I think the article was written to persuade and inform users of
iPhones. It was intended to inform users that the iPhone may not be as
private as Apple claims it is.
I used the CCBC database to search Apple and privacy and did not get
any search results so I changed the keywords to cell phone and privacy.
I used the Ebscohost- Environment Complete database. I selected this
database after searching the other technology related databases at CCBC
library; Ebscohost had the most current and most plentiful results. The
Journal articles I found were Distrusted Devices in Scientific American and
By Sniffing Out Phones, Stores Follow Visitors in MIT Technology Review.
In comparing Distrusted Devices from the Scientific American and
Apple Privacy May Not Be As Private As You Think from forbes.com you get
very different results. The journal article was more difficult to access as
evidenced by the difficulty to find it using the searches for Apple and
privacy. I needed to broaden the search terms for the database search. The
Internet article was easy to locate. The journal article was dated May 2014
while the Internet article was from August 2015. The Internet journal author
wrote mostly of his opinion and the opinions of others. The author of the
journal article was more credible and fact based. Scientific American is a
reputable scientific journal while forbes.com is a business and technology
based website.
The 5 articles are cited in MLA format.

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Internet Articles
Matthew Panzario. "Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About 'Hey Siri' And Live
Photo Features." Techcrunch. N.p., 11 Sept. 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2015.
Priestly, Theo. "Apple Privacy May Not Be As Private As You Think." Forbes,
Tech. N.p., 24 Aug. 2015. Web. 25 Sept. 2015.
Sumra, Husain. Apple Explains Privacy Policy Behind Hey Siri and Live
Photos. MacRumors. N.p. 11 Sept 2015. Web. 25 Sept 2015.
Journals
River, ATT. "Distrusted Devices." Scientific American 310.5 (2014): 8. Print.
Kopytoff, Verne. By Sniffing Out Phones, Stores Follow Visitors. MIT
Technology Review 117.1 (2013): 64-65. Print.

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