New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Apple is framing the new Watch listening mode as opt-in processing, not a standing archive of recorded speech.

The Techmeme note points to Wired’s report that new Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations across the day. Apple says the raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing. The privacy question in this story is the gap between continuous capture and Apple’s claim that the underlying audio does not persist. Techmeme's note