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.
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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!
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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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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.
Lily Hay Newman
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
In an explosive story this week, YouTube channel Gamers Nexus published a two-hour (but highly watchable) video where they talked about how they deeply investigated modern LG TVs to see what data is collected. The ones enabled with audio were known to collect conversations from the room even when turned off, while basically all TVs collected data like what you're watching, other devices on the network, and more. If unplugged, they simply stored data and waited to upload until connected again.
Dominic Preston
GrapheneOS Will Overhaul Default Apps and Implement a Secure Clipboard
In an exciting announcement, Graphene OS has declared they will bring RCS compatibility to their native SMS app, thus giving users a little more privacy and security without the need for Google Messages - which is currently the only way for any Android users to take advantage of RCS. They have also announced plans to overhaul the stock apps - many of which they say are outdated - and institute a secure clipboard.
Fria Reyes
Forum Updates
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