Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

September 9, 2026 Sarah Perez

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.

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