[palata]

That's not what I meant.

Would you say that a minimal install of Linux or *BSD is "watching your communications"? It has to "read" your data in order to show them to you, but you wouldn't count this as "watching communications" or "surveillance". Siri running locally is not considered "surveillance".

The problem is when your data is exfiltrated, which is what you complain about with your Microsoft example. But again that's not what I meant.

[pests]

It’s not what you meant but it’s what you said. I understand what you meant, but others might not. Many people think their phones/computers are watching their communications. This was in response to your ‘Nobody would say that your OS is "watching your communications", right?’, which I cannot agree with as everybody I know says those exact words about android/windows/etc.

[palata]

> It’s not what you meant but it’s what you said.

Technically, I did not say it, I wrote it. Normally, the way it works is that you don't take a single sentence out of its context and then say it's wrong. You take the context.

I specified my thought in the next sentence:

> Even though the OS has to "read" your messages in order to print them on your screen.

Nobody would say that the OS is watching your communications, even though the OS has to "read" your messages to print them on your screen.