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  • 6 min read

    Amazon Sells the Memory and Gives Away the Microphone

    Amazon priced the always-on mic at $75 and the memory at $12 a month. The hardware is the funnel and recall is the product.
    • Wearable AI
    • Privacy
    • Personal Context
    • Market
    • Amazon
  • 8 min read

    Can Meta's Cloud Remember What It Cannot Read?

    Meta's Private Processing was built to forget. Its design for AI glasses remembers: ciphertext on Meta's servers, the key on your device.
    • Privacy
    • Smart Glasses
    • Personal Context
    • Security
    • Agent Architecture
    • Meta
  • 5 min read

    If the Camera Was the Problem, Why Are the Microphones Still There?

    Meta shipped camera-free Ray-Bans at $349 with a six-microphone array. Removing the lens answered the wrong privacy question.
    • Ambient AI
    • Wearable AI
    • Privacy
    • Sensing
    • Smart Glasses
  • 6 min read

    Apple Drew the Line at the Transcript

    Apple's Watch now summarizes your conversations but refuses to keep a transcript or name the speaker, and that refusal is where the market lives.
    • Ambient AI
    • Privacy
    • Wearable AI
    • On-Device AI
    • Continuous Context
  • 5 min read

    Privacy by Policy Versus Privacy by Architecture

    HTC's Vive Eagle goes global selling privacy as the headline feature - a playbook that stops working the moment the mic stays on.
    • Wearable AI
    • Ambient AI
    • Privacy
    • Smart Glasses
    • Trust UX
  • 6 min read

    Emotion Inference, One Tier Below Banned

    The EU AI Act's emotion recognition rules went live today - and they create a moat for on-device coaching wearables.
    • Wearable AI
    • Ambient AI
    • Affective Computing
    • Privacy
    • Coaching AI
  • 5 min read

    Brain Data Got Regulated. Voice Data Is Next.

    Four states now classify neural data as sensitive - always-on mic data fits the same legal definition.
    • Wearable AI
    • Privacy
    • Ambient AI
    • Biometric Data
    • On-Device AI
  • 3 min read

    Crowdsourced Mapping: Scaling Through Users

    Enabling users to contribute to mapping - the technical architecture, privacy model, and quality challenges.
    • Crowdsourcing
    • Mapping
    • Scale
    • Privacy
    • Meta
  • 3 min read

    Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization

    How to localize without compromising privacy - on-device processing, feature design, and differential privacy approaches.
    • Privacy
    • Localization
    • Security
    • VPS
    • Meta
  • 3 min read

    Privacy in Spatial Computing: What the Sensors See

    The privacy implications of always-on spatial sensors - what data we collect, how we protect it, and the trust we must earn.
    • Privacy
    • Security
    • Ethics
    • Spatial Computing
    • Magic Leap