Mysk🇨🇦🇩🇪Sep 11, 2025

Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU. This means that it doesn't use on-device AI model and the microphones forward everything to remote servers 🤯

UPDATE: Before this post goes out of control. The DMA can also be a reason why this feature is not available in the EU:

https://infosec.exchange/@hacksilon/115185978397645868

#Apple #privacy #infosec

Show threadAttila KinaliSep 11, 2025
@mysk Fun fact: there is a cold war era law in Germany that puts quite severe punishment onto listening devices. More specifically devices with microphones that transmit received sound to some third party that do not look like devices that would do that (e.g. telephones). Samsung walked into this a couple of years ago with their smart TVs. Apple is probably trying to avoid walking into similar laws in Europe all together.
Show threadDr. Christopher KunzSep 11, 2025
@attilakinali Which law would that be?
Show threadAttila KinaliSep 11, 2025

@christopherkunz TDDDG §8 Abs 1

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ttdsg/__8.html

§ 8 TDDDG - Einzelnorm

Show threadDr. Christopher Kunz
@attilakinali TDDDG was introduced in 2021. That's hardly "cold war era". If memory serves, that specific legislature was introduced to curb stuff like spycams in watches and microphones/recording devices in toys.
It's certainly not applicable to Airpods, which by their design are obviously known to the average German citizen to contain a microphone.
Sep 11, 2025 at 3:15pmWeb
Show threadAttila KinaliSep 11, 2025
@christopherkunz Yes, that's true about TDDDG. But it replaced a similar older law. Which, unfortunately, I cannot find anymore. AFAIR, the text has been copied almost verbatim.