Colin Zick, partner and chair of Foley Hoag’s Privacy and Data Security Practice, recently discussed the legal and personal privacy implications of Apple’s new always-listening artificial intelligence features in an article in
Bloomberg News.
In the article, Zick said that the features were another example of AI technologies advancing faster than legal frameworks, and that users should be informed of regulations prior to using the features: “We see a lot of circumstances where the technology is getting ahead of the law. My advice would be, treat this as if it was going to be treated like an interception under the wiretapping statute, and therefore, ask permission.”
Zick also drew comparisons between Apple’s new features and a now-disabled feature from Zoom which allowed users to save or download closed captions generated during a meeting: “What does that suggest? That they’re worried about this very issue,” he said.
Read the full article here.
