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damn, I was thinking of getting an iphone. Now I'm thinking of ditching the entire apple ecosystem altogether. The idea that apple can scan files on my system
by cultofmetatron 5y ago
damn, I was thinking of getting an iphone. Now I'm thinking of ditching the entire apple ecosystem altogether.
The idea that apple can scan files on my system without my consent is pretty sickening. I don't care what its purportedly used for. This is a slippery slope to all sorts of privacy violations.
- oh_sigh 5y agoYou're tacitly giving consent by using their device and services.
- tick_tock_tick 5y agoWell they are now reject that consent and never getting an iPhone.
- rabuse 5y agoSince when did we start allowing companies to own the actual products we purchased?
- nomel 5y agoI imagine it's in the user agreement when you create your iCloud account. The isn't a device thing, it's a web service thing.
- oh_sigh 5y agoHow does them adding a scanning feature mean you don't own your device any more? Do you not own your device because apple puts iOS on your iphone before you buy it?
- kyralis 5y agoDon't use iCloud photos and no scanning occurs. This is a condition of the service, not of the device.
- Syonyk 5y agoFor now. The technology to do on-device scanning will exist.
- zionic 5y agoApple is putting the entire database on every phone to scan and promising to only do it for certain situations. They can alter that deal at any time, you’d have to be a fool to think that isn’t their plan. On-device scanning of “encrypted” cloud content where Apple has always held the key makes 0 sense unless your plan is total device surveillance.
- kyralis 5y agoApple already controls the entire photos pipeline on your device, and in fact all of the OS code. If they want total device surveillance, they've got it today. They're doing this because they are announcing it, because they think it's a net positive. You might not agree, but the argument that this is somehow creating the technology for scanning and is therefore nefarious is missing the point that if they wanted to do this surreptitiously and nefariously, they (a) wouldn't announce it and (b) could have been doing it for years. This isn't some fancy new tech, except for the privacy bits, which obviously wouldn't apply to Evil Schemes.