Your worst joke at the bar used to die there. Now it might live forever, on someone else's wrist. Amazon is selling a 75 dollar wristband called Bee Frontier. It listens to your meetings and your conversations with two microphones, then hands you transcripts and summaries. Apple Watch can now recap conversations it overhears. Smart glasses from Meta are joining in. The pitch is a perfect memory. The price is everyone else's. Amazon says Bee deletes the audio in real time and locks transcripts in an encrypted space even its own employees cannot open. A little LED glows while it records. But privacy advocates point out the obvious: a tiny light across the room is not consent, and in two party consent states like California and Florida, recording without it can be illegal. Worse, Meta's glasses can translate your words with the light off, and the transcripts may sit on Meta's servers for up to a year unless you delete them. Meta even had to remotely disable thousands of glasses after users tampered with their lights. The old deal was simple: public spaces came with built in forgetting. These devices end that deal. Before you buy the perfect memory, ask who else gets to keep it.
Sources: Fast Company, AI wearables want to remember everything. What happens when we can't forget?
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