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There's a fantastic little blurb about Tim Cook arguing in favor of privacy regulations: “Today that trade has exploded into a data industrial complex. Our own
by mancerayder 8y ago
There's a fantastic little blurb about Tim Cook arguing in favor of privacy regulations:
“Today that trade has exploded into a data industrial complex. Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency,” he said.
“These scraps of data ... each one harmless enough on its own ... are carefully assembled, synthesized, traded, and sold.”
He said algorithms, a major tool for competitors, were turning harmless preferences into hardened convictions.
“If green is your favorite color, you may find yourself reading a lot of articles — or watching a lot of videos — about the insidious threat from people who like orange,” Cook said.[1]
I love this, almost to the point that I want to move off of the EvilCorp Pixel 2 and onto something that doesn't resell my personal data. It seems Apple is on a higher moral high ground.
1 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-privacy-apple/apple-boss-takes-aim-at-weaponization-of-customer-data-idUSKCN1MY1DF https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-privacy-apple/apple-bo...
- superflyguy 8y agoUnless you're going to also stop using Tweedledum corp's browser and search, I'd not bother. And if you are then just use, say, Firefox and duckduckgo and ublock origin on your current os.
- mancerayder 8y agoI use Firefox and DDG on my EvilCorp Pixel. I suspect there's a lot more than that - for example, it seems widely accepted that it funnels GPS data out even if you're not using a GPS-dependent app like GMaps in the foreground.
- joncrane 8y agoMeanwhile another post on the front page says that Apple has been fined for intentionally slowing down their phones.
- mancerayder 8y agoIs that related to re-selling personal, intimate data (like where you are and what you like) to third parties? If not, why mention it in the context of privacy? I'm not an Apple user and I don't even think the iPhone UI is particularly great (no . and ? keys on the keyboard? No notification drop-down I can quickly, in one-stop-shop fashion, remove notifications without that silly number on the icon remaining?). But we're talking about privacy.