Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
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@zackwhittaker there are no words for how not happy, jazzed, or cool i am with this
@zackwhittaker Let's I am deaf or hearing impaired and I can get a transcription of what is being said, allowing me to be a part of conversation. This is good. If Apple says, “Oh, we need at least a 15 sec buffer" to process that speech in order to an accurate transcription, well that is a necessity. I am glad to be included in the world and not isolated.
@zackwhittaker I mean it's good to practice security culture, where you don't idly talk about anything sensitive unless necessary, but this takes it to more of a "I need you to strip naked and join me in this soundproof room before we can talk about personal stuff just in case" scenario, which I am not emotionally prepared for. I mean, aside from a few close friends, obvs.
@zackwhittaker Yeah, it's super creepy, def not OK and very much anti-privacy for the person(s) being recorded essentially without knowledge.
What they're doing there is encrypting a conversation for the person who records it in effect, whilst giving absolutely no right of consent to the other party. Super dooper creepy and really really not good.
This is REALLY not a good look.
Lots of places have "two party" (or "all party") consent laws for recording audio. I am eagerly awaiting the lawsuits. And have been for a while, now
@zackwhittaker I forsee requests to leave your phones at the door. A bit like those legendary swingers parties with car keys…. 😜
Always listening/recording = always surveilling.
Thanks, Apple, for making the decision to seek out another phone so much easier.
I want a phone, not a tether. I don't want my phone creating a 24/7 record of what goes on around me, day or night, not even after I've eaten Taylor Farms lettuce.
@zackwhittaker not available in the EU right? Right?
@zackwhittaker Apple's done. Nothing new, fascist, obedient to tyrants. Toast.
@zackwhittaker The worst part is the "How Audio Intelligence features protect the privacy of those nearby" which is just "we don't record who said it, but you still get to read anything we captured them saying".
So in other words, it doesn't protect their privacy at all.
My LG TV already does half of this.
@zackwhittaker isn't this just illegal in all-party states? like, I don't know, _california_?
@zackwhittaker This version of fascism is going to be completely impossible to circumvent
It will quite literally be #1984 on steroids.
but at least Winston could stand in the corner, away from the viewscreen
@zackwhittaker We are living the dream. A by design always listening microphone always on us. What more could we possibly ask for!
@zackwhittaker Are they just chasing LG's #datamining tactics, or are they just continuing the #TechBros amalgamation during the US Administration's inauguration?
Will the next of the .01% be angling to ride the momentum of the #ClimateCRISIS and corner the #energy markets, to build the very best luxury bunkers for them and theirs, while the rest of us choke on #Capitalism?