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I really have to applaud Apple for doing these things on the device instead of on their cloud servers. They respect your privacy far more than most large tech c
by QasimK 9y ago
I really have to applaud Apple for doing these things on the device instead of on their cloud servers. They respect your privacy far more than most large tech companies (I would just say “they respect your privacy, others don’t”.)
- gman83 9y agoWhat are the privacy implications of doing this vs. something like Google Photos? I mean iCloud also has my pictures.
- 8ytecoder 9y agoBut that could technically be encrypted and still provide the same set of features.
- interpol_p 9y agoThey discuss photo and video storage on iCloud specifically: > Apple’s iCloud Photo Library is a cloud-based solution for photo and video storage. However, due to Apple’s strong commitment to user privacy, we couldn’t use iCloud servers for computer vision computations. Every photo and video sent to iCloud Photo Library is encrypted on the device before it is sent to cloud storage, and can only be decrypted by devices that are registered with the iCloud account.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoSo if I throw out all my Apple devices and forget my current iCloud password, the photos are gone? Or does Apple store the encryption key for me somewhere as a convenience, so that once I get new decides and reset my iCloud password, I regain access?
- asimpletune 9y agoThey’re gone
- ggg9990 9y agoThat's messed up and makes it certain that I will never use iCloud. Losing my family photos is a much worse outcome than having them accessed by a hacker.
- Dolores12 9y agoDon't put all your eggs in one basket
- kayoone 9y agoThat is what you get when you want real privacy protection, no one but you should be able to access that data. That being said, iCloud is not really a backup, just a File Storage with syncing features, you should get another service (internal or external) to backup your data like Backblaze or a NAS.
- macintux 9y agoApple allows you to reset your password if you forget it. This feature is why it can respond to subpoenas for iCloud data like iMessages. It's an unfortunate tradeoff.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoOK cool. That's what I was hoping.
- Simon_says 9y agoWhat do you want to happen if you lose all your devices? Backup your damn data.
- williamxd3 9y agohow would they do on the server? no internet connection = cant use the phone?
- jack_pp 9y agothere's such a thing as a pin. people keep forgetting.
- spynxic 9y agoI don't have the time at the moment to check whether or not Apple uses this approach, however, Google went about solving offline-functionality in a clever way. https://research.googleblog.com/2015/07/how-google-translate-squeezes-deep.html https://research.googleblog.com/2015/07/how-google-translate...
- QasimK 9y agoThat’s exactly why I prefer on-device computation! The internet is not always available