Everything's recording everybody. What now?
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Everything's recording everybody. What now?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202639 min
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Meta just shipped a pair of smart glasses with no camera — a change that both David and The Verge's Victoria Song are excited about. But these glasses, like the new product from Amazon Bee and seemingly everything else now, are still ready and willing to record the world around you at all times. What do we do in a world where everything, everywhere, might be recording? And can tech companies figure out a way to make us feel better about it? You have until Thursday to vote for us in the Signal Awards! Vo...

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Hello and welcome to The VergeCast, the flagship podcast of automatic meeting recordings. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're going to talk about wearables. Specifically, these wearables that are just constantly recording you. Recording your meetings, recording your conversations, in some cases, recording everything you do

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all of the time. There's a question about what recording means, what they're doing with these recordings, where they're storing these recordings, and how we as people feel being the ones doing the recording or the ones on the other end.

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The Verge's V song has been covering all of these devices, including a pair of meta glasses that have no camera that I'm totally fascinated by. She's gonna come on, we're gonna try to figure out

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