The TERRIFYING Truth About Apple's PRIVACY LIE

For over a decade, Apple has built its brand around one promise: your data is yours. “What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone,” the ads declared. But now, a bombshell $95 million court case, and a chilling new government mandate, have shattered that illusion — revealing a surveillance scandal of unprecedented scale.

The Privacy Lie.

While millions of users relied on Siri for everyday tasks — setting alarms, sending texts, asking for directions etc. — something much more invasive was happening in secret. Siri was recording you. Not just commands, but full-blown conversations: private chats with your partner, calls with your doctor, business deals, conversations with your boss, your accountant, even the most intimate bedroom moments were all captured by the device. Every photo you ever took, every joke you ever made, every last thing you ever looked at, browsed or watched all recorded, catalogued, and stored by the device. It is effectively always on, always listening and always recording.

Seeing and hearing everything on you Phone is part of Apple's business model.

Now transcripts from this lawsuit make it clear that this wasn’t a glitch — it was standard practice. It was Apple's business model. Siri was, allegedly, often triggered accidentally by background noise or misheard phrases. Those frequent false activations resulted in millions of audio clips being sent to Apple’s servers — without the user's knowledge or consent. And what Apple did with those recordings is where things start getting truly disturbing.

To “improve Siri,” Apple hired third-party contractors to listen to those audio files, look at those photos, read those text messages. Whistleblowers from inside the programme claim they heard everything: arguments, business negotiations, medical diagnoses, even criminal confessions. Rather than anonymised data sets, these were raw, identifiable conversations — often tied directly to a specific Apple ID.

Apple insists this was all in the name of improving performance, and that they never used Siri data for advertising or profiling. But multiple users say they began seeing eerily relevant ads after certain conversations — raising serious doubts about Apple’s denials.

In 2019, after a media outcry, Apple suspended human review of Siri recordings and made future audio sharing opt-in only. But critics say this move came far too late. Millions of users had already been exposed.

Now, in 2025, the situation has escalated to a new and even more alarming level.

On February 7th, the UK government formally demanded that Apple grant access to users’ encrypted personal files — including messages, photos, and possibly Siri recordings — as part of its national security strategy under the Investigatory Powers Act. This marks a dramatic expansion of state surveillance, and Apple’s resistance has been all smoke and mirrors, rapidly crumbling to legal and political pressure.

“Privacy is not an automatic right.”

A spokesperson for the UK Home Office defended the right to seeing all your files, stating bluntly: “Privacy is not an automatic right.” Critics have compared the rhetoric to language from the World Economic Forum and warned that such policies normalise authoritarianism under the guise of public safety.

Documents leaked from the Home Office show that Apple was notified of the 'request' on February 3rd. The matter was discussed in a closed-door parliamentary session three days later. There has been no public consultation, no formal debate — only silent compliance moving through the shadows of bureaucracy.

UK Government can now see every single thing you've ever done on your iphone.

Most troubling of all is that the vast majority of mobile phone users have no idea that the device is constantly recording everything about you, including the most intimate and embarrassing moments all to sell them more products. that was bad enough, but now, with a depressing inevitability, Apple have given the UK Government direct access to your files too. All of them, you apparently have no automatic right to stop them.

This push to force Apple’s hand is part of a wider global trend: from the EU to the U.S., lawmakers are increasingly seeking backdoor access to personal tech — often with minimal oversight or accountability.

Apple, for its part, claims it opposes any government-mandated backdoors. But with this new legal front opening in the UK, many privacy advocates fear the company will grant unfettered access to any government body as soon as they demand it.

The implications are enormous. it means that your privacy is no more. Apple is recording everything you do and then telling the government. no encrypted device is truly private — not your texts, your photos, or your late-night chats with Siri. What was once marketed as the most secure ecosystem in tech could soon become the government’s biggest surveillance tool.

The 'fighting crime' lie.

The Government now have access to your bank account to see if you're committing benefit fraud, your private photos in cause you're downloading child porn, and your social media chat in case you're committing a hate crime. The UK Government claim that they need to see and hear every file on your phone to 'prevent crime', but that assumes we're all guilty until proven innocent. You're effectively being investigated for a crime you haven't committed, and soon, very soon, you will be issued a carbon credit score using it as well, and with that your digital prison will be complete.