Apple Restricted on Siri Trial Defenses for Deleting Recordings

A San Francisco federal judge barred Apple Inc. from making certain arguments defending against a proposed privacy class action, as punishment for deleting audio recordings of users’ interactions with its Siri voice assistant central to the allegations.

“It is undisputed that Apple did not suspend its retention policy after it was served and, thus, continued to delete ESI pursuant to its retention policy,” Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the US District Court for the Northern District of California wrote in an order Monday, referring to electronically stored information. “Instead, Apple argues that the documents deleted pursuant to its retention policy ...