{"slug": "medical-privacy", "title": "Medical privacy", "summary": "A user expresses concern about medical privacy, citing AI scribes in healthcare and the risk of smartphone voice assistants recording conversations without consent. The user argues that banning phones and watches from medical rooms is a valid safeguard against unauthorized audio recording for AI solutions.", "body_md": "please kindly do not assume I am unwell.\n\nthere is literally another thread here about a doctor making an AI slop infographic for a fellow member here.\n\nAI scribes are HUGE business right now in the medical field.\n\nno phone/watch in room == good guarantee that they aren’t recording audio for use in one of these “solutions”.\n\nin the context of “phones”, implying the phone vendor recording, we do know that their wake words false positive, and text does frequently get processed on their servers even if it is just for a query and not the actual speech processing.\n\nwe’ve seen cases where these recordings are leaked or are processed by actual people.\n\nI’ve been around many people where we’re just causally chatting and next thing you know siri says “here I found this on the web”, implying it sent off what we just said to google search. if you don’t see this as a valid concern and instead want to write it off as being psychotic, that is unkind of you and I ask you to re-evaluate yourself.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-privacy", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/medical-privacy/38767#post_3", "published_at": "2026-06-24 21:59:36+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 22:19:22.807852+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-ethics", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Siri", "Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-privacy", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-privacy.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-privacy.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/medical-privacy.jsonld"}}