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Apple is reportedly dipping its toe into recording and AI-summarizing your repair and tech support conversations with its employees at the Genius Bar.<\/p>\n

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This new pilot program called \u201cLive Notes\u201d is being pitched as a time-saving tool for the store employees themselves, according to Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, and is still only in a limited number of stores. The recording of the conversation, Gurman explains, is auto-transcribed and summarized, and then stored in the \u201crecord of the repair session\u201d on the Genius Bar employee\u2019s work iPad.<\/p>\n

But Gurman writes that the tool has \u201csparked concern\u201d among Apple Store workers, since, obviously, something almost exactly like this could be used for monitoring and evaluating employees.<\/p>\n

But for now, Apple apparently claims the audio recordings aren\u2019t saved, that the program is opt-in for both parties\u2014the employee and the customer\u2014and that managers don\u2019t get to view the transcripts.<\/p>\n

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Wall Street loves tools like this\u2014and not just big Apple investors. JPMorgan recently rolled out a monitoring tool that sounds similarly Orwellian, but the company similarly claims it\u2019s just a helper for employees. The digital monitoring system uses video call data, meeting schedules, and\u2014perhaps scariest of all\u2014keystroke data, to cobble together a report that tells junior banker whether their actual output matches their reported output. But the company says it\u2019s using it to evaluate performance from above, and claims \u201clike the weekly screen time summaries on a smartphone, this tool is about awareness \u2014 not enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Self-monitoring purely for the convenience of employees may strain plausibility, but for what it\u2019s worth, outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke out in 2018 in support of European-style privacy regulations, and said privacy was a \u201cfundamental human right.\u201d Nonetheless, in 2019, in a scandal that eventually resulted in a class action settlement, Apple eavesdropped on Siri recordings in order to rate them. Apple admitted the practice was problematic shortly after it was exposed, saying \u201cwe realize we haven\u2019t been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gurman calls Live Notes an early test, and says that\u2019s part of what makes employees nervous, since invasive monitoring is increasingly becoming bedrock reality in the tech biz.<\/p>\n

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