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Potential Apple Watch snooping: a not-so-paranoid cyberespionage risk

Potential Apple Watch snooping: a not-so-paranoid cyberespionage risk

October 11, 2016

Via: CIO
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It may sound paranoid, but the next time you enter a highly confidential meeting, leave your smart watch behind. It’s possible the device could be spying on you.

That’s what ministers in the U.K. are reportedly being told. They’ve recently been banned from wearing Apple Watches during cabinet meetings on fears that the devices could be hacked by Russian cyberspies, according to The Telegraph.

Mobile phones have already been prohibited from cabinet meetings, but the U.K. government has reportedly taken the extra step of also banning smart watches.

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