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Apple is learning their lesson about announcing these changes publicly. In the future they're likely to just roll out invasive features quietly behind their use

Apple is learning their lesson about announcing these changes publicly. In the future they're likely to just roll out invasive features quietly behind their users' backs, like the rest of big tech does.

titzer 5y ago
This is how Google operates. "We've updated our privacy policy to give you more control over how your data is used". And then it sounds like they are introducing privacy, when in fact they are taking it away, and you're lucky if the option they've given you restores the prior behavior. These privacy policies are written by lawyers and are a masterclass in simultaneously being vague as hell while being completely defensible in court and also as broad as possible. They go right up to the edge of the law on what they can do with your data and then fall back on "we don't sell your data to other companies". That's technically true. They just buy the other companies or start competing with them and hide it all behind "huminah huminah make our products better". The updates even sound completely innocent and unless you can intuit the technical architecture behind the product, you have no chance of really understanding what this clause really means for your privacy. By design. Having read the actual privacy design docs behind some of these products....well, I'll just stop there.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
  > This is how Google operates. Well, even though they don't hide the fact that they scan not just your photos but also all other content, they don't report what they learned to the police on their own accord - the police needs to explicitly ask for it. Come to think of it, why to stop at child porn? Are photos of rape and murder less reprehensible (and if so, by who's morality)? If you follow this logic, Apple should have an army of people analyzing terrible images and in the end needing psychological help.

titzer 5y ago

This is how Google operates. "We've updated our privacy policy to give you more control over how your data is used". And then it sounds like they are introducing privacy, when in fact they are taking it away, and you're lucky if the option they've given you restores the prior behavior. These privacy policies are written by lawyers and are a masterclass in simultaneously being vague as hell while being completely defensible in court and also as broad as possible. They go right up to the edge of the law on what they can do with your data and then fall back on "we don't sell your data to other companies". That's technically true. They just buy the other companies or start competing with them and hide it all behind "huminah huminah make our products better". The updates even sound completely innocent and unless you can intuit the technical architecture behind the product, you have no chance of really understanding what this clause really means for your privacy. By design. Having read the actual privacy design docs behind some of these products....well, I'll just stop there.

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
> This is how Google operates. Well, even though they don't hide the fact that they scan not just your photos but also all other content, they don't report what they learned to the police on their own accord - the police needs to explicitly ask for it. Come to think of it, why to stop at child porn? Are photos of rape and murder less reprehensible (and if so, by who's morality)? If you follow this logic, Apple should have an army of people analyzing terrible images and in the end needing psychological help.