🔗 New Apple Watches have ears and the surveillance industry is going to take notice

I think Apple is slicing the baloney pretty thin when it says audio isn’t recorded. Surely there’s some recording because summaries require context; they can’t be made on the fly. Maybe a transcription is done in near-real time and the summary is drawn from that. If so, the transcription is a type of recording, albeit one that isn’t stored after the summary is made. As for not identifying the speakers, I don’t see how that matters. Old-fashioned audio recordings don’t identify speakers, either, but they’re still intrusions on the speakers’ privacy if they didn’t give consent. Apple has always focused on the privacy of its customers: your information is encrypted, your data stays on your device. It’s following that same pattern here, but the privacy concerns of Live Rewind and Siri Recap aren’t limited to the owners of Apple Watches. Apple now needs think about the privacy of non-customers and be able to explain how that’s being protected, too. And while an argument can be made that…