• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Dude! I bought some Bose headphones that were amazing. But I read over the privacy policy and they wanted to “map my head movements” and they wanted permission to passively listen to audio sent through the speakers and any audio around the microphone.

      I ran those fuckers back to the store as quickly as possible.

      But not before having to duck and dodge agreeing to the privacy policy in their app, so I quickly deleted it. But when I started interacting with their customer service, they tried to get me to sign a different privacy policy that seemed formulated just for the information shared in the chat, but in two separate addenda I had to dig through, I saw they were tryin to get me to sign the original super invasive privacy policy.

      Fuck Bose. Fuck all these fake fronts for surveillance capitalism. Fuck capitalism.

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        8 months ago

        I think the claim is that they can use AI to improve the sound of their headphones if you supply them with images of your ears. I just dont like them having a database of personally identifying information like that.

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        8 months ago

        it’s bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony’s headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.

        • falkerie71@sh.itjust.works
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          8 months ago

          Which I don’t think has anything to do with GenAI. Though, I admit I’m not well educated in ear scanning and 3D audio reconstruction, so good sources are appreciated.