This is the same shit companies do with their “year in review” shit - a blatant attempt to glamorize and normalize their invasive surveillance, now running 24/7.
That sounds like shit; thanks Apple.
Didn’t watch the presentation. Should I assume that anyone wearing an apple watch from now on is recording my audio without consent?
I think it’s doing on-device summarization. No transcript is retained or sent off.
This is the correct comment. But the one with the assumption is voted higher. Lemmy loving vibes more than facts, day 1,436.
Yes, the audio is never stored, the summaries can be completely turned off, and yes, Apple again is caught inside its own bubble being ever more disconnected from the outside silicon valley life. They should not have touted this so strongly and loudly.
People will these devices are being kidnapped daily and forced to open their devices. Even without the audio some of these transcripts can be used as evidence against them or their families, violating their 5th amendment rights.
You don’t have the facts either though. You are just assuming whatever Apple says is the truth.
Apple says stuff about Apple product. How is that not a fact?
They said that. They have very little incentive to lie.
They have the only incentive that matters to lie: Profit.
If they would admit that the Data is send to Servers and or saved, there would be backlash hurting their bottom line.
And they should record and save everything to collect and sell the Data, aiding their bottom line.
Man, I don’t know. Where I’m coming ‘Profit’ is the exact reason not to do this.
You’re applying redneck town butcher level of business logic to the most successful corporation on the planet, constantly being probed by hackers.
They are so married to this privacy stance that even the hint of that coming out would decimate their userbase.
Most normal Data collection is already ignored
Either willfully because it got normalized or not really willfully since “they wouldnt do it because what if it came Out?”
Well… They do it. It is known. But since Apple always was pretty culty the members dont really care and everyone that cares doesnt use Apple, because they know they steal Data and dont believe the pinky promise they wouldnt sell it.
Well I think it’s spying on me. Who is right?
That’s what I’ll be assuming
I wonder how this will be legally interpreted in states with two-party-consent recording laws
Hell, what about 1 party consent where the person doesn’t know their watch is recording?
Excellent point, lmao
It’s a clever idea, although obviously many consumers are nervous about a proliferation of always-listening devices. The feature will be opt-in and obviously, Apple will tout its stringent privacy-preserving implementation compared to the competition. Apple’s version will not actually store audio recordings, nor will it present a transcript of conversations.
Let me tell you about apples “stringent” privacy. It means they will hesitate a second before giving the administration anything they ask.
how can they do that if the data never leaves your device?
Jokes on them, my Apple Watch mic hasn’t worked reliably in 2 years!
Nothing changed in that regard. It doesn’t record audio, sound recognition runs on device. In the exact same way that all modern Apple devices (watches, phones, earbuds, …) can already listen for Hey Siri, and other brands listen for their wake words etc.
I believe Apple Watch already ships with always on Siri, but I don’t know anyone who left that turned on.
I think it will be functionally different than “recording”. When you talk to Siri or any other voice assistant, does it record your voice or simply transcribe it? This seems to be the latter.
And Apple has always made a point of saying things like this are on-device, not cloud
If I can’t turn it off, I don’t want it.
You can turn it off. In fact it says right in the article that it’s off by default.
How do I turn it off on the devices of people around me?
FYI Pebble is back and open source if you want a smart watch without all the bullshit
That they will harvest to learn how to build a better prison around us all. People who use this shit are traitors to the very notion of freedom, or personal rights at all. They give away prices of their liberty one EULA at a time. Same strategy Putin has used to inch his way to empire without provoking an outright war with any nation that is too dangerous. Heat the water slowly and the frog never notices.
People wearing glasses with thick rims will get sick of showing people that there’s no camera and start buying new glasses.
Apple Watch users will stop wearing their watches in public. And finally giving up wearing one altogether.
That’s interesting. I don’t see how it can generate recaps of my day if I don’t ever purchase it.
No it wont, I won’t buy it.
Not my day.
Oh don’t worry. All the other apple watches around you will do it just fine with your shadow account.
Sounds to be local to the device at least… for now.
oh hey time to stop speaking unless absolutely necessary
how do we revert omnipresence of mics, cameras and other sensors
We don’t. But thankfully we don’t have data brokers that can assemble all of it and make pretty little profiles of us all. That’s why they need another 1500 data centers per year.
Turns out the monsters in A Quiet Place should have been real-world surveillance networks all along.
The new Apple Watch will track your every move.
They should have picked an appropriate theme song:
Every breath you take, every move you make, I’ll be watching you
I want to hear the summary after just gooning all day
“chat, get this guy a gf, please”
Oh no it won’t.
I absolutely do not need this. Journaling is healthy. Take that up instead
Exactly. People love convenience until it removes the only actual benefits of the thing it’s replacing, but by then they’re dependent on it.
If it listens to things for you so you can look at them 10 seconds later when you realize you didn’t hear, why should your brain even bother paying attention to ANYTHING in the moment? If it summarizes your day, how much less are you going to remember because you’re just not forcing your brain to think about what you’ve done today?
I know for a fact I’ve gotten much better at remembering things that happen throughout my day after I started taking a note every day with what I did. If I had something recording it all for me, I’d just become even more reliant on that thing to even remember what happened at all.
