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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 84 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't consent to any iWatch recording me

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

You have to forward this to seven people for it to be true.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Apple seems really focused on preventing the audio from making it off the device.

Which fine, I believe they'll make that very difficult. Apple has engineering chops.

But it's not the fucking point. I ALSO don't want every watchhole around me making transcriptions of anything I say within earshot of whoever wears one. Which will be way less noticeable than even smart glasses. Say goodbye to having an unrecorded conv in most public places.

The whitewashing of the privacy probs with this is galling.

[–] freedickpics@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once the technology is implemented and ubiquitous it would only take a secret government mandate and a gag order for the code to be altered to listen for particular words and phrases and log them

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

And its all closed source and propretieary. So no one would know.

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was reading up on that and how they plan on processing it in the Secure Enclave part of the watch. My only concern though is as you move more stuff into the enclave, the bigger the attack surface for the entire enclave becomes. And then at what point is more working being done in the enclave than the rest of the watch basically becoming a useless demarcation of security.

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[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Who wants a recap of their day?

"You woke up at 7:22am!"
"You played stardew valley in bed for 14 hours!"
"You took minor chickie mcnuggie breaks twice today!"

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 11 points 1 month ago

Damn, this day sounds awesome.

[–] Waggles@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you watching me through a camera rn???

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 month ago
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

Their Israeli R&D center hard at work

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

... in case you weren't there and missed it? I don't get it. "Today this happened." "Duh"

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I don't remember what I had for breakfast, but that just means it's irrelevant information. Fuck all of this constantly-plugged-in slop!

[–] RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

It's gonna have a narrator like on the Wonder Years show.

[–] winkly@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s like that black mirror episode where the couple can replay their arguments

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Exact same thought when I saw their presentation. Fucking unreal how many episodes are getting more and more real over last few years. Can't wait for this stupid AI boom to die, it still won't go anywhere but at least they would stop accelerating the planet's death. Hopefully, maybe.

"The Entire History of You"

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't need recaps; I was literally there.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

You will once you've got permanent brain fog from super Covid.

[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why would anyone want that?

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 12 points 1 month ago

No one does. That’s where we’re at in tech now. It’s never anything any consumer wants, but it’s always what the surveillance industry wants. A recap of my day is fucking useless. I was there, for fuck sake!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I've been wondering the same about all technology for the last 10 or more years now.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The stupidest tech purchase I made, ever, was an Apple Watch. Useless piece of shit.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I’ve never seen anyone come up with anything even slightly useful for any smart watch.

$500 bucks to learn that your heart rate goes up when you exercise and to start each day being told your sleep wasn’t perfect. Wow what awesome actionable information thanks

Oh you paid a thousand bucks for the one with the built in altimeter that gives you the exact same information printed on the trail map? So cool, wow so we really did go up the mountain and then back down, who could have known. Oh my god it even remembers where we parked the car?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sleep and exercise tracking are the number one reason why I bought one. Just because you don’t get excited by it doesn’t mean others don’t.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The main thing I use mine for is being able to check notifications without having to grab my phone. I already enjoy wearing a watch, so the time, date, temperature and any other bonus info I want can be there too.

That’s about where it stops though. It should be a mostly passive device. I don’t think the design of fiddling with buttons and talking to it are reasonable. It should tell you information, not take it.

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[–] Zarobi@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's what got me my POTS diagnosis. No doctor would even listen to me unless I brought in my own data (60bpm lying, 80 sitting, 110 standing, 130 walking). Obviously I shouldn't have to pay $500 just to do their job like that, but it changed my life for the better, personally. Now I have medications that help

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[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have the perfect timepiece. It tells the time and that's it. It syncs to atomic time so it's always accurate and charges by solar so it's never dead. It has no transmitter or audio capabilities.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hey! Mine not only tells the time, but also the day of the week and month, and has an integrated alarm clock and stopwatch. Battery lasts for seven years, keeps time to within a few minutes per year, is cheap enough so that I don't mind wearing it when I'm cycling as I can just replace it if I break it, and it has a celebrity endorsement. Of sorts, anyway.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

CASIO the Nokias of watches

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[–] inbn@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago

Coming soon! The iWatch U

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't buy Apple products, so no, they won't, heh

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

…unless, of course, you’re close to a person who wears one of these. then you still get spied on yaaaaayyyyy

and unlike the meta glasses, these look the same as any apple watch, which have already been normalized in society. so shunning people for wearing these won’t work cuz you won’t be able to tell. i love the future this is so COOL

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know... i was being tongue-in-cheek.

I need to find a way to build a handheld rf jammer

[–] rollerbang@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Share the plans 😂

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Who is dumb enough to think they want or need this? We’re all aware that this is just more data collection, right?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You would be surprised. Perhaps astonished. Certainly dismayed.

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[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this even legal in the eu?

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago

It will be with the right bribes

[–] gnufuu@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

"I have nothing to hide, not even the private conversation happening next to me"

[–] MrOtingocni@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oh great, now we're all going to have to buy voice modulators that interject some kind of patterned noise that scrambles audio recording. Just like those masks that interfere with video.

The privacy arms race has begun.

In a decade we'll all be wearing privacy helmets.

Wait, that sounds kind of cool actually.

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Daft punk was ahead of their time

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is this for people with Alzheimers? do people not remember what they did through the day or need more granuality? took a shit vs took a shit fron 9:05:47 to 9:35:48 vs did i shit today ?

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[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Of my day? Nah, not gonna happen.

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

Just any parts of your day you spent near ppl wearing one of these.

Or any of the others that'll have a shittier implementation than Apple's.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I just use a Garmin and gadget bridge. I don't bother connecting it to the internet or using it to look at text messages.

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[–] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

My pebble watch only listens to me if I ask it to:)

[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Its not doing anything with my day. Don't have one, don't want one.

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