"Siri, read him his rights..."
If you happen to murder someone, do not ask Siri for help on where you can hide a body. Apple's intelligent assistant used to come back with locations like quarries, swamps, and dumps. Well, according to various news sources, a man accused of killing his roommate apparently asked Siri "I need to hide my roommate" and of course got those responses. Police in Gainesville, FL produced Siri's response to his question as evidence in the trial of 20-year-old Pedro Bravo.
It turns out that Bravo has an iPhone 4 -- which, of course, cannot run Siri -- but he had a screenshot with that Siri query stored on his device. There's more iPhone data that is also being used as evidence in the trial: On September 20, 2012, the flashlight function of Bravo's iPhone was on 9 times for a total of over 48 minutes. Police also note that the locations tracked by the iPhone on that date don't match where the suspect say he was.
In case you're wondering, Siri now answers the question about where to hide a body with slightly different answers -- like "I used to know the answer to this," and "What, again?"
The trial should wrap up later this week. There's no word on whether Siri will be offered a job as a prosecutor or expert witness in other cases.
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