Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Privacy is surveillance
With the release of Apple Watch Series 12, Apple has decided that it's ok to capture people's conversations without their consent.
The latest Apple Watch comes with Audio Intelligence, a set of AI audio processing capabilities tuned for the company's S11 chip. Its features include: Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap.
"Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text," Apple explains in its technical summary [PDF]. "Siri Recap summarizes conversations throughout your day and produces high-level Apple Intelligence-generated notes so you can stay present in the moment and catch up later."
With the double-press of the Digital Crown – as Apple grandly refers to the button on its Watch – Live Rewind takes in an audio stream from the Watch microphone, processes it in a Secure Exclave on the...
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