Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
The privacy blowback was immediate and inevitable: Experts warned of the legal risks of using the features, especially in nonpublic spaces and states where eavesdropping laws require both parties to consent to being recorded. Many others called the tech “creepy.”Apple, prepared for the backlash, launched an entire page of technical details in an attempt to reassure people that no, it’s not spying on them. The company claimed that one feature, Live Rewind, uses a rolling buffer that only transcribes the last 15 seconds of speech, and another, Siri Recap, only provides “high-level summaries” of what it captured throughout the day — both without identifying individual speakers.
- ▪The privacy blowback was immediate and inevitable: Experts warned of the legal risks of using the features, especially in nonpublic spaces and states where eavesdropping laws require both parties to consent to being recorded.
- ▪Many others called the tech “creepy.”Apple, prepared for the backlash, launched an entire page of technical details in an attempt to reassure people that no, it’s not spying on them.
- ▪The company claimed that one feature, Live Rewind, uses a rolling buffer that only transcribes the last 15 seconds of speech, and another, Siri Recap, only provides “high-level summaries” of what it captured throughout the day — both withou
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| Publication time | 2026-09-24T09:30:00-04:00 |
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