{"id":174264,"date":"2025-09-22T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/174264\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:01:08","slug":"the-world-of-apple-ambient-ai-and-privacy-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/174264\/","title":{"rendered":"The world of Apple, ambient AI, and privacy \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What about privacy?<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s privacy. Apple\u2019s privacy commitments are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4048434\/uk-wants-all-your-digital-data-court-filing-suggests.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allowed to exist<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and that can\u2019t be taken for granted, given the\u00a0energy governments seem to be putting into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4025653\/uk-could-be-forced-to-step-back-on-data-surveillance-demands.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">undermining these protections<\/a> \u2014  help reassure us that our data, including AI-gathered information, will not be used against us in some way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These protections help ward off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.applemust.com\/apples-latest-ads-focus-on-privacy-you-have-a-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">surveillance advertising<\/a>. It\u2019s, after all, plausible to imagine \u201cpersonalized\u201d ads appearing on digital advertising screens on every corner of every street you travel down, based on your unique user data. Just because you\u2019ve had a hypertension warning doesn\u2019t mean you want your eyes exposed to an endless supply of keep fit, anti-cholesterol drinks and life insurance ads as you go to your local mall, after all.<\/p>\n<p>What happens if?<\/p>\n<p>My concern is that once the bulwark of privacy and personal security is removed, what then? When a population is accustomed to the convenience of wearable AI, at what point will the greed of surveillance-at-a-profit business models stop? As the AI juggernaut penetrates every part of life, where is the political will to define privacy rights?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What about privacy? Then there\u2019s privacy. Apple\u2019s privacy commitments are\u00a0allowed to exist\u00a0\u2014 and that can\u2019t be taken for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-174264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}