I don't consent to any iWatch recording me
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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.
Once the technology is implemented and ubiquitous it would only take a secret government mandate and a gag order for the code to be altered to listen for particular words and phrases and log them
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.
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!"
Are you watching me through a camera rn???
On your LG TV, yes.
... in case you weren't there and missed it? I don't get it. "Today this happened." "Duh"
It’s like that black mirror episode where the couple can replay their arguments
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.
I don't need recaps; I was literally there.
Why would anyone want that?
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!
I've been wondering the same about all technology for the last 10 or more years now.
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.
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.

CASIO the Nokias of watches
The stupidest tech purchase I made, ever, was an Apple Watch. Useless piece of shit.
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?
Sleep and exercise tracking are the number one reason why I bought one. Just because you don’t get excited by it doesn’t mean others don’t.
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.
It's what got me my POTS diagnosis. No doctor would even listen to me unless I brought in my own data (60bpm lying, 80 sitting, 110 standing, 130 walking). Obviously I shouldn't have to pay $500 just to do their job like that, but it changed my life for the better, personally. Now I have medications that help
I don't buy Apple products, so no, they won't, heh
…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
I know... i was being tongue-in-cheek.
I need to find a way to build a handheld rf jammer
Who is dumb enough to think they want or need this? We’re all aware that this is just more data collection, right?
Is this even legal in the eu?
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.
"I have nothing to hide, not even the private conversation happening next to me"
Of my day? Nah, not gonna happen.
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 ?
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.
Its not doing anything with my day. Don't have one, don't want one.

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