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[–] 85 points 1 week ago (1 child)

I don't consent to any iWatch recording me

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  • [–] 77 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

    Which fine, I believe they'll make that very difficult. Apple has engineering chops.

    But it's not the fucking point. I ALSO don't want every watchhole around me making transcriptions of anything I say within earshot of whoever wears one. Which will be way less noticeable than even smart glasses. Say goodbye to having an unrecorded conv in most public places.

    The whitewashing of the privacy probs with this is galling.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I was reading up on that and how they plan on processing it in the Secure Enclave part of the watch. My only concern though is as you move more stuff into the enclave, the bigger the attack surface for the entire enclave becomes. And then at what point is more working being done in the enclave than the rest of the watch basically becoming a useless demarcation of security.

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    [–] 65 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    Who wants a recap of their day?

    "You woke up at 7:22am!"
    "You played stardew valley in bed for 14 hours!"
    "You took minor chickie mcnuggie breaks twice today!"

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    Their Israeli R&D center hard at work

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  • [–] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    ... in case you weren't there and missed it? I don't get it. "Today this happened." "Duh"

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It’s like that black mirror episode where the couple can replay their arguments

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Exact same thought when I saw their presentation. Fucking unreal how many episodes are getting more and more real over last few years. Can't wait for this stupid AI boom to die, it still won't go anywhere but at least they would stop accelerating the planet's death. Hopefully, maybe.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I don't need recaps; I was literally there.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Why would anyone want that?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    No one does. That’s where we’re at in tech now. It’s never anything any consumer wants, but it’s always what the surveillance industry wants. A recap of my day is fucking useless. I was there, for fuck sake!

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    I have the perfect timepiece. It tells the time and that's it. It syncs to atomic time so it's always accurate and charges by solar so it's never dead. It has no transmitter or audio capabilities.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Hey! Mine not only tells the time, but also the day of the week and month, and has an integrated alarm clock and stopwatch. Battery lasts for seven years, keeps time to within a few minutes per year, is cheap enough so that I don't mind wearing it when I'm cycling as I can just replace it if I break it, and it has a celebrity endorsement. Of sorts, anyway.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    The stupidest tech purchase I made, ever, was an Apple Watch. Useless piece of shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    I’ve never seen anyone come up with anything even slightly useful for any smart watch.

    $500 bucks to learn that your heart rate goes up when you exercise and to start each day being told your sleep wasn’t perfect. Wow what awesome actionable information thanks

    Oh you paid a thousand bucks for the one with the built in altimeter that gives you the exact same information printed on the trail map? So cool, wow so we really did go up the mountain and then back down, who could have known. Oh my god it even remembers where we parked the car?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The main thing I use mine for is being able to check notifications without having to grab my phone. I already enjoy wearing a watch, so the time, date, temperature and any other bonus info I want can be there too.

    That’s about where it stops though. It should be a mostly passive device. I don’t think the design of fiddling with buttons and talking to it are reasonable. It should tell you information, not take it.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    Coming soon! The iWatch U

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    I don't buy Apple products, so no, they won't, heh

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  • [–] 42 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    …unless, of course, you’re close to a person who wears one of these. then you still get spied on yaaaaayyyyy

    and unlike the meta glasses, these look the same as any apple watch, which have already been normalized in society. so shunning people for wearing these won’t work cuz you won’t be able to tell. i love the future this is so COOL

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    [–] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Who is dumb enough to think they want or need this? We’re all aware that this is just more data collection, right?

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    [–] 13 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Is this even legal in the eu?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Oh great, now we're all going to have to buy voice modulators that interject some kind of patterned noise that scrambles audio recording. Just like those masks that interfere with video.

    The privacy arms race has begun.

    In a decade we'll all be wearing privacy helmets.

    Wait, that sounds kind of cool actually.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    "I have nothing to hide, not even the private conversation happening next to me"

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Of my day? Nah, not gonna happen.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    is this for people with Alzheimers? do people not remember what they did through the day or need more granuality? took a shit vs took a shit fron 9:05:47 to 9:35:48 vs did i shit today ?

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I just use a Garmin and gadget bridge. I don't bother connecting it to the internet or using it to look at text messages.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Its not doing anything with my day. Don't have one, don't want one.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago

    My pebble watch only listens to me if I ask it to:)

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