Apple’s new watches are always listening

MELBOURNE: (Sep 23) The latest Apple Watch models have some new features: they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on demand, and write up summaries of everything they heard.

This kind of ambient, always-on surveillance raises privacy concerns, which Apple addresses well. The company says audio is never “recorded” or stored, that nothing is attributed to any speaker, and all content is encrypted so even Apple cannot read it.

I have no reason to doubt any of that. But my reaction to these features is still clear.

Source: PTI News

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