Following controversy last month about Samsung transmitting spoken words to a third party, Apple's terms of service clearly state that the company is following a similar process by recording and transmitting the voice data of Siri users.

In November last year we reported on how Samsung's global privacy policy advised users of their Smart TV range that "personal or other sensitive information" in the form of spoken words was being captured and transmitted to a third party.

The controversy only blew up three months later when Samsung was forced to admit that voice data was being "sent to a server" operated by a third party during the process.

However, Apple's iOS Software License Agreement also advises users of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that, "When you use Siri or
Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text and to process your requests."