Your computer will also send Apple other information, such as your first name and nickname and the names, nicknames, and relationship with you (for example, “my dad”) of your address book contacts.
As of 10.8.3, you can't go into privacy and remove access to contacts for Dictation like most other apps that ask for total access to the Contact database.
How to use apple dictation on mac install#
Install a Mountain Lion virtual Machine, and use dictation there. Also, I captured activity sent but it was just a bunch of garble, probably b/c it was already encrypted at that point. I might try following activity with Fseventer later too, but I'm out of time at the moment. If the connection to is not completed in some fraction of a second (tested with 3 controls this), then the little dictation bubble / microphone icon just goes into the 'close' mode. Protocol 6 I believe is HTTPS, so http with SSL. These images are all that little snitch offered with the popup after I went in and disabled its default and protected rule which is referenced in the block-quote below the image. I don't think it's possible to use Dictation without sending ALL spoken data to Apple. Hypothetically, then, the only info Apple will get from me will be fairly standard hardware/OS stats, my Apple ID (which they, of course, already have), and the contents of the dictation/transcription. When I want to dictate something, I'll use the handy fast user switching command to jump over to my dummy account (also copying over any needed information or documents pertinent to the dictation), dictate the content, and when it comes back from Apple I'll copy the transcription back to my main account. I won't use any user info-based applications (iCal, Address Book, etc.) in this secondary account. When I get Mountain Lion, I will set up a second "dummy" user, that will only be used for dictation/transcription. In all likelihood, each user on a given computer can turn Dictation on or off independent of the other users and Dictation only sends information from whichever user account is currently active.
This is just a work around and I don't own Mountain Lion yet, so I can't test it myself, but I bet it will work.
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