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>while they have a strong pro-privacy stance for now (though we only have their word) So you have nothing. Nothing concrete at all. You have a black box on you
by andrepd 7y ago
>while they have a strong pro-privacy stance for now (though we only have their word)
So you have nothing. Nothing concrete at all. You have a black box on your hands, running whatever code Apple desires, effectively an infinite-privilege backdoor, with acessos to loads of data, with no possibility of scrutiny or verifiable privacy. Oh but you have their word. Come on...
- Vinnl 7y agoAs long as they're making it a selling point and a marketing message, they have incentive to stick to their word.
- andrepd 7y agoYou're either the most naive person in the world or you are wilfully looking the other way. Let's just say that corporations don't have the best track record in the world when it comes to being honest and upfront...
- oarsinsync 7y agoThis is true, and the future direction of the corporation may change. However in the present, given the numerous public statements about their pro-privacy stance, if it turned out to all be a giant fabrication and they were actually data mining in the same way Google does (which Google publicly states), I'm reasonably sure that would be (at the very least) securities fraud.
- Vinnl 7y agoWell, either their belief that privacy attracts customers is wrong (i.e. they shouldn't be using that as marketing), or their customers will leave if privacy violations are exposed. I don't have reason to believe I have a better idea of what gets Apple customers than Apple itself, so...