I guess it uses your contact information to get the names out of your voice.
e.g: "Send a message to Lemony Snicket" would be easier to understand when the voice processor knows there is someone called "Lemony Snicket" in your contacts.
I have been a remote java developer for the last 3+ years, mostly developing micro services using Spring Boot / Kafka / Cassandra both as a freelance and a full-time employee.
I live in Strasbourg (France) and I’m used to working in a distributed team spanning multiple timezones.
+1 for solid. Solid has these concerns baked into the design. It's the best solution I've seen for user-owned data and interoperability, not to mention the wealth of possibilities enabled by linked data. To try to legislate those concerns into the current centralized web is going to cause a lot of grief.