Reddit post by user Barney13:

I was playing around with the ‘OK Google, show me some of my photos from…’ So I tried some places I had recently visited, San Francisco worked perfectly. Then Spain, all good, this is awesome! Then I get emotional. Google made me cry. I went for ‘OK Google, show me some of my photos from Nice, France’. She came back saying this to me:

“According to Gmail, firstly let me express my deepest sympathy to you, your mum and the whole family at your loss. Your dad was a fantastic man, as I am sure you already know.”

Mind. Blown. I’m sad, I’m amazed, I’m taken back. What a lovely moment for some automated robot voice to express it’s sympathy to me.

It turns out she read out a snippet from an email I received from a family friend soon after my Dad’s death. But the fact that she knew to say it was pretty staggering, it was in the 3rd paragraph of an email sent to me back in December 2010.

I find this creepy beyond belief. But also amazing. But creepy.

Do I want Siri to know all my personal details, my pet peeves, secrets vented in anger? In real life, I choose who to share with, and I decide who to trust. Imagine an artificial intelligence listening in on everything, always correlating, judging. Doesn’t that sound a bit creepy? And doesn’t that touch the same nerve exposed by the FBI, Apple, privacy battle?

[H/T Robert Davey]