{"id":991564,"date":"2026-02-12T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991564"},"modified":"2026-02-12T09:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:43:00","slug":"data-fears-and-tech-resentment-greet-ai-wearables-europe-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/data-fears-and-tech-resentment-greet-ai-wearables-europe-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Data fears and tech resentment greet AI wearable&#8217;s Europe launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly landed in Europe after a stormy reception in America, startup Friend&#8217;s chatbot-powered, always-listening pendants are stirring concerns over compliance with tough EU data rules as well as anti-AI resentment. <\/p>\n<p>Many metro stations in Paris have in recent weeks been plastered with Friend&#8217;s ads, picturing the round white device with promises like &#8220;I&#8217;ll always be up for grabbing coffee with you&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll never leave dirty dishes in the sink&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly landed in Europe after a stormy reception in America, startup Friend&#8217;s chatbot-powered, always-listening pendants are stirring concerns over compliance with tough EU data rules as well as anti-AI resentment. Many metro stations in Paris have in recent weeks been plastered with Friend&#8217;s ads, picturing the round white device with promises like &#8220;I&#8217;ll always be up for grabbing coffee with you&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;ll never leave dirty dishes in the sink&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}