The surveillance is conducted by the private sector in cahoots with the fascist state for profit rather than directly by the state.

it had always been this way and orwell would have known that if he didn't buy into the propaganda.

i'll be forever funny that COINTELPRO was active during orwell's time so there's a strong possibility that it elevated his work because of its pro-propaganda messaging.

The surveillance is conducted by the private sector in cahoots with the fascist state for profit rather than directly by the state.

Yeah, I don't think that's a particularly meaningful distinction. It's actually a viable definition of fascism itself.

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

Holy shit case closed

No. It's a watch alright. Like the night watch. It's meant to be on the lookout and to judge. It's meant to watch you.

I'll have the black medium V neck t-shirt please.

(ALRIGHT ALRIGHT I'm working up to it ok? damn calories seech!)

I've read (and don't quote me on it) that the way it gets around those laws is it's technically not "recording". It's real-time dictation with no audio recorded or transmitted anywhere...

... But even so, it really goes against the spirit of those laws.

Meanwhile no one on this website has probably seen ads in years

Everything is legal in the US at this point

that's how you know it's a cult

Cult of personality and brand loyalty. They are still riding Steve Jobs' creation of a "movement". Bowel or otherwise.

I doubt their silent conversations will be picked uo

Not quite:

The Facebook pervert glasses are purchased by perverts to shoot videos of their victims, and Facebook rides along to perform their privacy invasion.

Apple's watch performs the same insane level of privacy invasion but all you get in return is a lousy text summary of what was said. Nothing to jack off on or blackmail someone with like with the Facebook spectacles.

I have an old Apple Watch and this made me wanna get rid of it.

I've bought into their ecosystem (mainly just because I hate every other tech giant slightly more) but they've really done little to impress me these past few years...

Assumably it’s a “passive” feature that you have to explicitly tell “hey keep record of that” within 15 seconds of the interaction.

So a little less doom and gloom than the headline suggests.

Edit: It seems I mixed up features. This still doesnt sound terrible. You as a user turn it on, the device emits a tone and visual cue. You can do the same thing with any number of sound recording devices out there, and they give literally zero warning they are recording.