Post by @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange 1 hr. ago

Today @zackwhittaker brings up a very important topic about the launch of the new Apple Watch this week:

How a large company like Apple can play an important role in normalizing intrusive surveillance.

"Apple is opening the door to a world where other companies, device makers, and app developers try to recreate or rival Apple's technology and do a far shoddier job, all the while creating a worse surveillance monster and introducing new security and privacy risks along the way."

We don't talk enough about how privacy is also a culture, part of cultural norms that can go in one direction or another.

Products like this, produced and sold at a massive scale, weakens our culture of consent and privacy, and pushes society towards the increasing normalization of always-on surveillance.

I highly recommend reading Zack's article: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/

#Privacy #Security #Apple #MassSurveillance

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pizzadoesntexist

@pizzadoesntexist@mastodon.social 21 min. ago

@Em0nM4stodon @zackwhittaker while i absolutely agree with you, i think perhaps it's time we consider the elephant in the room - that people in general don't want or care at all about privacy. we don't say it out loud, but it seems to me that society lost the battle and we've accepted our role as products for corporations.

Em :official_verified:

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange 10 min. ago

@pizzadoesntexist People do care a lot when their privacy is affected, or when they experience direct negative consequences because their data was exposed or shared without their consent or knowledge.

The problems we have at a cultural level that leads to the privacy nightmare we live in is that:

Most people don't understand well to which extend their data is collected, stored, and shared without their knowledge.
Most people don't have a deep understanding of the negative impacts data exposure can have on themselves and on others.
Our society in general has a poor implementation of consent practices.
There is a lacks of educational resources to develop empathy to a degree where everyone would understand well the impact their actions can have on others.

David

@deFractal@infosec.exchange 60 min. ago

@Em0nM4stodon @zackwhittaker We urgently need a suitable dysphemism for this product category, to duly shame the buyer and wearer. For the camouflaged always-on worn cameras, we have #pervertGlasses and #pervertPods (depending on form). What's a similarly accurate yet suitably pejorative term for always-on worn voice recorders?

wrist taps? eavesdrop watches? body bugs? wrist wires? snoop watches? stalk watches?

JaggyJeff

@JaggyJeff@mastodon.social 1 hr. ago

@Em0nM4stodon @zackwhittaker I would change the title to Apple brings the always-listening tech outside, anytime anywhere.
But yeah, pretty enraging stuff after the revelations about the LG TVs.