It's bad enough that the *doctors* get my history wrong ("No, that's my *family* history of heart disease. I'm fine."), add in software which can't correctly transcribe "fallacious".

And how does any of that work on patients with difficulty speaking? Sure, the doctor is supposed to review the transcript, but they get it wrong often.

Meanwhile, Tag has been sold for years, and provided zero safety features. So imagine it’s not an Apple watch but something offbrand that nobody is thinking of.

Imagine there is an LG TV in the room. Given the current controversy around LG TVs allegedly listening or collecting data ; what could go wrong?

Or his laptop still runs Windows 7 because "it works fine", with years of random software installed.

My point: this isn't an Apple problem

(that much is, well... private!)

i don't know tim cook's backstory but a lot of us can mask pretty well

peter thiel is gay and is behind freaking palantir

we ain't all angels

And still, I frankly do not trust Apple to secure a server as much as I trust them to secure a local device lol

@gruber @Em0nM4stodon

The things to be concerned about here are things like transcription errors or defects allowing access by apps.

None of them have a sterling privacy reputation in the first place, but *especially* not Apple on the server side of things, with Private Relay, Hide My Email, and Siri itself all having very notable slip-ups recently.

Apple also makes a lot of claims about PCC which are misleading at best, like their claims regarding the ability for independent security experts to audit Apple. While you can verify what binary images are running, they don’t have reproducible builds, the binaries contain no symbols; it would be very hard to verify that the binary images match Apple’s published specs, or whether Apple’s introduced any concerning changes or bugs in new images in a timely manner.

When data is not protected by raw mathematical encryption, it is always fundamentally at risk when being handled by a third party regardless of data protection safeguards they’ve put in place.

(This is not to mention the issue of Apple normalizing this behavior, which will lead Google and Samsung et al. to make their own versions way worse than even PCC)

@Em0nM4stodon

How many reception areas an waiting rooms have any sort of smart tv connected to the network?

And their terms of service for their computer monitors tells the owner that wiretap laws require them to inform their guests that they are being monitored, but these terms are never even presented to the user. Windows automatically agrees to them to make things simpler.

The office barred my spouse from returning. Yes, they fired my spouse, their patient, because he brought up privacy concerns, because Google doesn't respect the laws of their own country, let alone ours, let alone anyone else's. This is going to be a massive problem.

If your doctor or hospital using Windows, between Windows Recall, Copilot or even AcrobatReader (sending files to their servers for OCR, summarizing, etc.) and a million other way to leak files, basically everything ends up on foreign servers.

The state of privacy in medical is almost non-existent and this is terrifying.

Meanwhile the EU is pushing ChatControl and Remote Attestation to destroy Privacy even more instead of protecting us.