Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did.
Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes your day. Amazon’s Bee devices take that a step further and can record and transcribe everything. Dozens of other companies are introducing pendants, rings, and other products designed to record, transcribe, or summarize everything we say and do all day long.
Privacy has always been a team sport. The actions you take with communication apps, collaborative software, or your cloud backup solutions, have long impacted everyone else you’re interacting with. But moving those choices deeper into the physical world where strangers, colleagues, family, and friends are all now a part of your privacy choices is drastically changing the game.
