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1 in 5 Americans regularly get news on TikTok
Pew Research Center: “Many Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves. Explore the patterns and trends shaping the social media landscape. YouTube and Facebook are the most widely used social media platforms in the United States. About half of U.S. adults say they use Instagram, and smaller shares use sites or apps such as TikTok, Reddit, Snapchat and X (formerly Twitter)…”
Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
The Verge – no paywall: “A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough. We have the ability to continuously listen to every spoken word they detect and create summaries of whatever’s going on around you.
The privacy blowback was immediate and inevitable: Experts warned of the legal risks of using the features, especially in nonpublic spaces and states where eavesdropping laws require both parties to consent to being recorded. Many others called the tech “creepy.” Apple, prepared for the backlash, launched an entire page of technical details in an attempt to reassure people that no, it’s not spying on them.
The company claimed that one feature, Live Rewind, uses a rolling buffer that only transcribes the last 15 seconds of speech, and another, Siri Recap, only provides “high-level summaries” of what it captured throughout the day — both without identifying individual speakers. There’s even an audible chime that warns people nearby when the device is transcribing to prevent surreptitious eavesdropping!
At least, in theory. To many, these supposed privacy safeguards are cold comfort at a time when widely hated surveillance tech like Flock cameras cover rural and suburban communities, subway walls advertise always-listening AI “Friend” pendants, and predatory influencers use Meta RayBan glasses to harass women in public.
It’s 2026, and the number-one consumer technology trend seems to be devices that constantly listen to and record everything and everyone around us at all times — with or without consent — subjecting people to a new kind of surveillance where they’re responsible for spotting subtle lights and beeps to know that they’re being spied on. And it’s not surprising that many people have simply had enough…
