The New Apple Watch is Always Listening?!

Our top stories this week:

  • Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
  • LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
  • GrapheneOS Will Overhaul Default Apps and Implement a Secure Clipboard

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Updates from the Team

Why Big Tech's Privacy Promises Are Lies

Melanie Ensign is the founder and CEO of Discernible and former communications lead for Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and DEF CON. She pulls back the curtain on how these large corporations operate, revealing why most internal privacy teams operate like "tax attorneys" rather than privacy advocates.

Why Big Tech’s Privacy Promises Are Lies
Melanie Ensign is the founder and CEO of Discernible and former communications lead for Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and DEF CON. She pulls back the curtain on how these large corporations operate, re…

News Briefs

Once again, our news briefs remain one of the best ways to stay updated with breaking news in the privacy space. This week we talked about Microsoft's latest record-breaking Patch Tuesday, the return of Nitter, some exciting new announcements from Graphene, and more!

Privacy & Security News
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Site Updates

We had just one small commit this week to fix a broken link explaining on the README of our GitHub page explaining how we publish the site.

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Sources

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features

This week, Apple held their latest product launch event. One of the big stories is how the new Apple Watches will feature a slew of AI-enabled transcription and analysis capabilities that largely rely on listening to you at all times. Thinks like summarizing meetings, transcribing the last 15 seconds of speech, recognizing sounds, and more. Apple appears to have gone out of their way to make this as private and secure as possible, but it still illustrates a worrying trend where privacy invasions are becoming increasingly invisible and ambient.

Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do.