Legal beagle blogger Simon Fodden has a fascinating (and brief) post that, if I'm reading correctly, is a warning to all international users of the Siri voice-command feature on the iPhone 4S that spooks with the U.S. National Security Agency and other U.S. security services could be screening whatever is you were whispering to your iPhone. Fodden is passing on information posted by lawyer Norman Letalik to a legal beagle e-mail list the two are on:
“… the best practice would be not to use the dictation feature on an iPhone 4s for any dictated information to which you intend legal privilege to attach. Note as well that Apple’s dictation servers are located in the US, so the dictated information may also be scanned for national security purposes by the US Government pursuant to powers given to it under the Patriot Act …”