Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent
10-09-2026 21:50 via theregister.com

Watch out: Apple timepiece can grab snippets of conversation without both speakers' consent

With the release of Apple Watch Series 12, Apple has decided that it's ok to capture people's conversations without their consent. The latest Apple Watch comes with Audio Intelligence, a set of AI audio processing capabilities tuned for the company's S11 chip. Its features include: Sound Recognition, Music Recognition with Shazam, Live Rewind, and Siri Recap. "Live Rewind lets you instantly see the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text," Apple explains in its technical summary [PDF]. "Siri R
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