Through Conversations - The Dark Side of The Apple Vision Pro: A New Surveillance Tool? - Alex Levy | Podcast

The Dark Side of The Apple Vision Pro: A New Surveillance Tool?

FEB 27

Through Conversations

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First, they came for your fingerprint, then they came for your face, and now they want your eyes.

What is Apple, Google, Meta and all of the other big tech companies doing with all of your biometric information that defines who you are? Why are they harvesting all of this biometric data? For safety? For privacy? Or for profit?

Are they creating clones of us? Are they buying your genetic information from 23andMe? Are they harvesting all of this data just to sell us ads?

Is there a deeper story to this?

In this episode, I talk about Apple's Vision Pro and how biometric technology, like facial recognition and eye tracking, is changing things. I look at how much personal info these technologies can tell Apple, from who we are to possibly even our health.

The show also covers how accurate this tech is and how it might predict diseases in the future. But, it's not all good news. We learn about how companies that sell data, called data brokers, can use our biometric info in ways we might not like.

The episode then dives into the not-so-great sides of sharing our biometric data, like privacy worries and how this tech might hurt us. I talk about how important it is to know how our info is used and what we can do to keep our data safe. The conversation ends with advice on staying informed and secure in a world where our personal info is collected all the time.

Highlights

00:00 Intro and Episode Preview

00:55 Impacts of Biometric Technology

2:07 How much info do our eyes give Apple?

3:03 Accuracy in Facial Recognition

3:58 Predicting Diseases

5:34 Data Brokers and Your Information

8:23 Biometric Data's Negative Impact

9:32 Awareness of Information Usage

10:56 Privacy Concerns Among People

11:22 Our Involvement in Data Collection

12:57 Stay Informed, Stay Secure