As mentioned before, my employer has banned the Meta "Pervert" Glasses at work.

[iamkonstantin@mstdn.social]

@veronica Same! Two of my clients have banned Apple hardware from the premises. The guideline is anything that runs Siri AI or is capable of video and audio recording. It’s crazy how people are ok with surveillanceware.

[myphatself@mstdn.social]

@holsta @veronica you stayed?

[countholdem@mastodon.social]

@veronica Mamdani: the Big Apple Meta

#DemSoc

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@veronica what’s wrong with the watches from their perspective?

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@veronica @iamkonstantin at least up until ios26, iphones don’t listen unless you enable voice activated apps

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@superball @veronica
“Always on” listening.

[superball@norcal.social]

@pomegranate_stew
Ewwww.

[alsvha@sunny.garden]

@veronica I'm envious.

[ggmcbg@mstdn.plus]

@veronica
I wanna meet the people offended by being disallowed deceit and invasion and theft because they flex-paid a violent toy. And they can explain themselves as adults with needs, to my satisfaction. Or get fucking goggle-smacked.

Entitlement America is over.

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@superball
Yeah. 🫤

[bob_zim@infosec.exchange]

@Kierkegaanks @veronica @iamkonstantin iPhones (and Apple Watches, even AirPods) have listened in the background for “Hey Siri” (and later, just “Siri”) by default for over a decade. The option can be disabled, but when it’s enabled, the mic is always hot, and the audio is routed to an on-device recognition model listening for the trigger. That model can’t be inspected by people outside the company, though, so we’ve always just trusted that Apple devices with the feature enabled aren’t doing more with the audio data.

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@veronica @bob_zim @iamkonstantin yes but i don’t know of a case where the setting is automatically reversed with an update or something