>Using technology to secretly record someone else isn't new, but bringing this audio- and video-collecting wearable tech into the mainstream has the potential to make it easier to carry out cybercrime and fraud by lowering the bar to entry for abuse.
could be equally applied.
anyway, once Apple releases their iWhatever this current thing will be swiftly forgotten.
Had they been framed like this, and those concerns expressed more loudly, we'd probably have camera covers integrated in all phones now.
Instead we're left to pretend that it's implausible that our Chinese phone takes a peek every once in a while, or that we're infected by spyware which does it.
If you haven't grown with camera phones you've probably experienced discomfort at a camera constantly pointed at you, for a while.
It wasn't a dumb feeling, and it wouldn't be absurd to go back to a saner state of things at some point.
There have been spy-tech gadgets around for ages that can hide cameras in plain sight such as mini cameras that can be fitted inside a hat that looks like a decal. Mini cameras that look like a broach or shirt button. I think the difference is such gadgets have never been mainstream or popularized by a big tech platforms nor designed to integrate with cell phone internet connections into said big platform that is so tightly integrated with the government.
4d4m•56m ago