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> they invest far more effort in keeping your data private than every other OEM. Especially in China... Apple's privacy claim sounds silly, knowing that they g
by franczesko 5y ago
> they invest far more effort in keeping your data private than every other OEM.
Especially in China...
Apple's privacy claim sounds silly, knowing that they gave up on protecting users data where it truly matters - against the government abuse and focus mostly on the least dangerous threat (if threat at all) - online advertising.
- ziml77 5y agoIf Apple doesn't obey China's laws, they can't operate there. Also, why do you want to force your ideals onto Chinese people? Flip it around. If China forced their ideals on the US, would you find that okay? Is the difference that we're right and they're not? Objectively? Is it that they commit human rights atrocities? The US has done the same, just typically outside of its own borders.
- shigawire 5y agoThe mental gymnastics to try to assert that the right to privacy is bad.
- shuckles 5y agoApple operates the only legal E2E encrypted messaging system in the country, and I’m sorry but your characterization of online tracking and advertising as harmless is at best an opinion.
- franczesko 5y agoWhat harm does it do?
- shuckles 5y agoOne side effect is commercial infrastructure to cheaply buy location traces for hundreds of millions of people: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat.... It doesn’t seem worthwhile to enumerate the ways this can be abused to someone who is bought into slippery slope theories.