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The other companies didn't advertise and pride themselves on being privacy focused. Part of the appeal of Apple was that you could avoid that issue and they to
by OnlineGladiator 5y ago
The other companies didn't advertise and pride themselves on being privacy focused. Part of the appeal of Apple was that you could avoid that issue and they touted it regularly. Now they're telling their customers to go fuck themselves (so long as they're 18 or older).
- GeekyBear 5y agoConducting the scan on the user's device instead of on the companies server is more private. Apple can't decrypt the results of the scan until the ~30 image threshold is crossed and a human review is triggered. Given Google's reluctance to hire humans when a poorly performing algorithm is cheaper, are they turning over every single false positive without a human review?
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- lifty 5y agoI guess people had a sense of ownership of these devices and they feel that it’s doing some they they don’t want. If ownership means control, maybe in the digital age full ownership/control is not really possible on a managed device like the iPhone. There are other example like the John Deer tractor issues.
- GeekyBear 5y agoI have a sense of ownership over my non-publicly-accessible data when it's backed up to a cloud drive. Apple isn't scanning that. Google and Microsoft are.
- lifty 5y agoSure, you own the data, but you don’t have any control on what’s happening to it. Just like iPhone users, we own the physical device but we only control certain aspects of what it’s doing, and the boundaries are not set by us, but by Apple.
- GeekyBear 5y agoIf I back up my files to Apple's cloud server, I don't have to worry about them scanning my private files at all. They don't cross that line like Google and Microsoft do. With Apple, nothing but files you upload to iCloud Photos get scanned.