Considering the amount of Apple devices in the wild, I guess what I talk physically to people will be mostly recorded then, not to mention that Google assistant or smth like that maybe doing the same, what a Brave New World.
How does this not violate 2-party consent?
Not every country or country subdivision has two party consent. Canada is a one party consent legislation.
The question was not “what countries do not have two party consent?” The question was “how does this not violate two party consent?”
It violates it
I understand that. What about the places that do?
They can disable it based on geolocation, or like others said, put the onus on the user to know best.
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.
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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.
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).
Yes and no company has ever broken its promise or gotten hacked. Nothing stays safe forever. As soon as some AI company makes a future deal for that data your privacy does not matter. Apples been caught before violating privacy laws.
You can’t trust any corporation to keep your data safe and local. They lie about not sending it elsewhere, and even when they don’t, all it takes is one security breech, which every company has all the damn time.
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.
The Live Audio is only 15 seconds before it is overwritten. The Transcribe is 7 days before it is overwritten.
