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The title is misleading. Most people would believe the title is saying "Apple is collecting information on who you call, who calls you, where, when; and it's r
by fpgaminer 8y ago
The title is misleading.
Most people would believe the title is saying "Apple is collecting information on who you call, who calls you, where, when; and it's reading your emails."
But then the article says: "information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive"
So, no, they aren't "tracking your calls and emails" in the layman's sense of the term. They're just counting the number of calls and emails.
In terms of privacy violation that's at least an order of magnitude less egregious, and so it's an important distinction.
Not to mention that those numbers aren't even sent to Apple directly. Again the article states: "The data that gets sent to Apple, according to the company, is a numeric score that is computed on the device itself."
- masukomi 8y agoyup. just came here to say that. this is 100% FUD spreading.
- Terretta 8y agoI'd guessed there's a reason the links being posted here on this are from low-trust sources: Sun, NYPost, etc.
- mercer 8y agoThese posts being flagged is a bit of a relief.
- infogulch 8y ago> a numeric score that is computed on the device itself Does that mean Differential Privacy [1]? In that case it's even less than a single score. [1]: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Overview.pdf https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...