How does this not violate 2-party consent?
Corporations are allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they want. There might be a few tiny consequences 10-20 years later that shaves a couple months of profit down, but that is just the cost of business and massive profits for the rest of the time.
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Not every country or country subdivision has two party consent. Canada is a one party consent legislation.
I understand that. What about the places that do?
I’m guessing they’ll put the responsibility on the user to only activate it when it has the consent of people around it or something…
Won’t exist there
Remember when they used to say if you didn’t pay for the product it was because you were the product? Now-a-days you get to pay to be the product.
Surveillance capitalism fucking sucks. Can we all go back to the 90’s or early 2000’s?
The worst thing about this is how ubiquitous Apple watches are. Now everybody who has one is going to have people suspecting them of being unwitting surveillance meat drones.
You’ve been able to just record audio with a watch forever now I don’t see how this is significantly worse than that.
Because I can tell it to record what I want when I want, not let it listen all the time. This fucking thing is a shackle now.
I won’t say it’s not* a privacy nightmare but doesn’t Apple devices process this whole thing on-device? I don’t find it fair to compare this with Meta anything (and only that).
Ok, but prior to this, the listening thing was at least a separate device. Now it can be a watch or sun glasses or your tv…
Plus is doesn’t store the audio nor an infinite log. It just continuously stores the last 15 seconds to my understanding. Meaning, what was said and transcribed 30 seconds ago is no longer accessible.
It isn’t enough to be privacy conscious. Now the apyijg follows you anywhere you have contact with other people
But add an always-listening AI assistant into the mix who’s taking notes on your day-to-day, including your conversations with others who may not know they’re being surveilled, and suddenly Apple’s latest handy feature starts to look a lot creepier. Apple’s other big new Audio Intelligence feature for watches is Live Rewind, which can produce a transcript of the last 15 seconds of audio on your watch face — whether a wake word was said, or not.
