Apple's Always-Listening Watch Features Siri Recap and Live Rewind May Collide With All-Party Consent Recording Laws
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Bloomberg reports the always-listening AI features on Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 could expose users to legal risk in states that require every party to consent to a recording, regardless of Apple's on-device privacy handling. The exposure sits with the wearer, not Apple, which is a different liability shape from cloud-assistant privacy fights. Anyone shipping ambient capture into a consumer device now inherits a per-state consent problem that no amount of local processing solves.