Siri 'shares' iPhone owner's pet name

Owners of the iPhone 4S with Siri, be warned: whatever you do, don't give her your pet name, lest she embarrass you with your business contacts. Mozilla Labs designer Kevin Fox disclosed this in a blog post, where he said the personal assistant can sneak a pet name into the iPhone owner's business card. "She’s a great assistant, but how discreet is she? It turns out that when you ask Siri to call you a pet name, it gets added to your contact card, and that pet name nickname will be attached to your contact card when you pass it along to anyone else," he said. A text dump he posted on his blog entry showed the nickname was included as a field in a vCard he sent via email. "At least I didn't ask her to call me A**hole," he said. Tech site CNET said Siri is able to call "her" owner what the owner wants "her" to. But it said Siri also enters that nickname next to the owner's entry in the owner's contacts list, just under the actual name. "So if you email or MMS your contact information to someone (by hitting the 'Share Contact' button from the contact page), the recipient will be treated to the personal pet name you've asked Siri to call you by," it said. — TJD, GMA News