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Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening as you go about your day — but Apple may be risking a Meta Glasses-style backlash (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because just recording audio is illegal in two-party consent states. This may or may not be illegal, depending on how judges interpret "recording" vs AI transcriptions of ephemeral recordings.

Additionally, even in one-party consent states, doing that is creepy and weird. This makes it even easier for weirdos to be creepy and weird. It also sends the audio to a cloud platform to perform the AI transcription. That is new.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (2 children)

    I’d err on the side of it being illegal in two consent states as well but I agree that hasn’t been litigated yet and there’s lots of bought and paid for judges.

    It doesn’t actually send the audio to apple though, according to them it’s sent to the phone, transcribed and “condensed” there with that condensed transcription and some context being what is sent to their servers for summarizing.

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/148354

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2026/09/10/new-siri-recap-feature-for-apple-watches-can-create-summaries-of-your-conversations-throughout-the-day-apple-says/

    "Siri Recap, the most interesting of the new features, stores a high-level summary of conversations throughout your day. The raw audio never leaves the Secure Exclave, but a condensed transcript of it is generated on-device and then sent encrypted to Apple's servers running Private Cloud Compute, the same technology that powers their cloud AI features.

    The claim is that Apple can't access data sent to PCC, but the way the technology works at some point the data must be decrypted in order to be processed. This makes it distinctly less secure than purely on-device processing. Data is included about context like whether the speech was from a song, whether you were at an event based on your calendar data, and even some location information like your city, state, and country.

    The summary is then sent back to your phone, encrypted, where it will be stored for 7 days unless you choose to save them."

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