Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening as you go about your day — but Apple may be risking a Meta Glasses-style backlash
www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/thanks-to-siri-recaps-your-apple-watch-is-always-listening-as-you-go-about-your-day-but-apple-may-be-risking-a-meta-glasses-style-backlashReplying to @fusspilz@feddit.org
You’ve been able to just record audio with a watch forever now I don’t see how this is significantly worse than that.
Replying to @Chronographs@lemmy.zip
Because I can tell it to record what I want when I want, not let it listen all the time. This fucking thing is a shackle now.
Replying to @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
That’s not new though, it also listens for Hey Siri all the time like all modern Apple devices have been doing for years. You can also still turn it off if it’s your own watch.
Replying to @setsubyou@lemmy.world
Keeping a transcript is definitely new behavior. Siri didn’t keep 7 days of anything.
Replying to @Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world
The comment I replied to said it was different from recording audio because when recording, they can tell it when to record instead of listening all the time, so that’s the only part I’m arguing with.
In this regard nothing changed:
- You can still tell it when to record, because you can turn the feature off
- If you didn’t turn off other Siri features before, it was already listening all the time
I feel like half this thread doesn’t understand what their devices are doing. Latching on to a new way in which it can record all the time, while dismissing all the existing ways it can already record all the time. How are you going to protect yourself from anything if you can only recognize this when there’s something like a transcript that you can see that makes it super obvious? Most people here are probably already carrying two or three devices around that can record them but just don’t produce a transcript.