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/
@Em0nM4stodon @zackwhittaker this paper on “regulatory dodge” see seems to be ever more relevant:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/pub_law_archive/47/
P.S. the informed consent model has been broken for while now… time to move on: https://www.sup.org/books/law/privacy-context
“Like the movement of the hands of a clock [rapid transformations we have witnessed in socio-technical systems] may be imperceptible moment to moment in real time, yet, as we know, over an extended period, imperceptible change may lead to inexorable ruptures. By the time these ruptures surface in public deliberation, protest, or court cases, the new normal may be comfortably entrenched, but far from comfortably accepted.” — Nissenbaum, “Privacy in Context”
The Great Regulatory Dodge