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? You don't give your biometrics data to anyone when you use touch or faceId. Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Right now Apple _might_ be a dom

by codyb 9y ago

? You don't give your biometrics data to anyone when you use touch or faceId. Are you sure you know what you're talking about? Right now Apple _might_ be a dominant share in the SmartWatch category but certainly not in any other category they produce products in (phones, tv boxes, computers). In a current future some people buy almost everything through Amazon, do all their socializing with Facebook, and do all their e-mailing and internet searching with google. All three of those comoanies track you as you go around the web and exploit every little bit of information they can to build expansive profiles about people in the world. Apple doesn't track you around the web and is (and has, they stopped apps from tracking users in particular ways in the past) activitely making it harder for entities to follow you around the web. Kudos to Apple.

libertine 9y ago
> ? You don't give your biometrics data to anyone when you use touch or faceId. Are you sure you know what you're talking about? That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple. They can blast through your door and get through everything you have - phone records, phones, laptops, photos, documents, even your bank account. But not your Apple smartphone - that's some fucked up shit going right there. > Apple doesn't track you around the web and is (and has, they stopped apps from tracking users in particular ways in the past) actively making it harder for entities to follow you around the web. Apple doesn't need to track you around the web - Apple knows who you are. They just don't want everyone else to know who you are - keep you locked up.
- matwood 9y ago
  > That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple. Not even Apple can gain access to the secure enclave as this older article explains: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant-apple-decrypt-your-iphone/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant... The SE has advanced further since then, with Apple's stance appearing to be even if compelled by law they would rather be able to say there is nothing they can do to help.

by codyb 9y ago

libertine 9y ago

> ? You don't give your biometrics data to anyone when you use touch or faceId. Are you sure you know what you're talking about? That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple. They can blast through your door and get through everything you have - phone records, phones, laptops, photos, documents, even your bank account. But not your Apple smartphone - that's some fucked up shit going right there. > Apple doesn't track you around the web and is (and has, they stopped apps from tracking users in particular ways in the past) actively making it harder for entities to follow you around the web. Apple doesn't need to track you around the web - Apple knows who you are. They just don't want everyone else to know who you are - keep you locked up.

matwood 9y ago
> That data is stored in your phone - when the FBI has to ask permission to Apple to have access to a phone, that phone doesn't belong to you - it belongs to Apple. Not even Apple can gain access to the secure enclave as this older article explains: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant-apple-decrypt-your-iphone/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant... The SE has advanced further since then, with Apple's stance appearing to be even if compelled by law they would rather be able to say there is nothing they can do to help.