Fact · Voice privacy and security
The Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into Apple's Siri voice assistant, reported on October 6, 2025.
Quote found word for word on the live source, last checked October 19, 2026
In the source's own words
“Le Parquet de Paris vient de lancer une enquête sur Apple, et plus particulièrement sur son assistant vocal Siri.”
Apple suspecté d'écouter ses utilisateurs à leur insu via Siri, le parquet de Paris ouvre une enquête, Pierre Le Goupil, Presse-Citron, 2025, Lead paragraph.
Open the original- What it measures
- The inquiry followed a warning from Thomas Le Bonniec, a former employee of an Apple subcontractor who said his job was listening to Siri recordings. The article says the news was relayed from a Politico report, and the inquiry is to establish how many Siri recordings were made since 2014 and how they were used and stored.
- What it does not show
- The article reports an opened inquiry, not a finding that recordings were made without consent or retained. The prosecutor's own statement was not found on an official page.
In the data
A row of Voice Recording Privacy Settlements and Fines, as Apple Siri investigation, Paris, 2025: Paris prosecutor's office opened an investigation into Siri recordings, reported October 6, 2025 million US dollars.
- Company
- Apple
- Service
- Siri
- Kind
- Investigation
- Authority or court
- Paris prosecutor's office
- What it was about
- Human review of recordings
- Country
- France
- Year
- 2025