Meta glasses and Apple Watch share the same consent problem


Apple Watch’s 15-second transcription and modifiable Meta glasses’ hidden recording features raise consent risks for bystanders, say experts from CDT and EFF.

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The clip lays out a narrow but powerful idea: two wildly different products, Apple Watch software and Ray-Ban Meta glasses, create the same consent problem because hardware and software can both record people who never agreed to be recorded. The hosts show concrete, recent examples, Apple’s 15-second Live Rewind transcription and journalists finding ways to defeat the glasses’ recording LED, and interview privacy experts from the Center for Democracy and Technology and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to explain how those features translate into real-world risk.