Ask legislators to block applewatch's always-listening feature

I'm writing my legislators about this. Below is my email about this, which I've sent to my state reps. I sent a similar letter to my rep in U.S. Congress, and I wrote a similar Letter To The Editor to be (hopefully) published in my local paper. I've also sent a similar message to my state's attorney general. Apple announced a feature for their upcoming smart watch which will listen to everything 24/7 and transcribe notes for the wearer. In [my state], we have a two-party consent rule for recording, and this always-on feature would likely violate that law in many contexts, and it would violate basic privacy rights we have, to not be recorded without our consent. Apple is arguing that the "listening" is not technically recording because they are just "processing" the audio data then deleting the data. This is, perhaps, debateable. But the end result is to produce transcriptions and summaries of conversations, which is very near recording without consent. Please act quickly to protect…

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