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“Victim's Advocates” are unhappy with Apple's new iMessage edit features
- fortran77 4y agoThe argument is a harasser can send a harassing message and then delete it, "destroying" the evidence.
- rzz3 4y agoWhich, I find a bit ridiculous. It’s not Apple’s job to preserve a record. Someone has the same potential to be harassed on a voice call, with no record if it happening. If someone is harassing, iMessage offers the ability to block, and screenshots can be taken the moment a message is sent if the receiver wishes to preserve evidence.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoApple could always keep the record of edits as part of the sender’s and receiver’s iCloud iMessages log, and provide them to law enforcement when a subpoena is presented, similar to Slack with compliance settings enabled. Presentation layer vs data layer sort of thing.
- rzz3 4y agoI wouldn’t use it in that case. I disable iCloud backups for iMessage, use Signal whenever possible, and encourage those I talk to to do the same. Privacy and security are important to me, and we’ve all seen how easy it is to fake an administrative subpoena.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoYou aren’t the target market. The casual/average Apple ecosystem user won’t care.
- josephcsible 4y agoYou don't see anything wrong with Apple letting other people remotely delete stuff from your phone?
- WalterGR 4y agoThe actual title of the article does not contain scare quotes: Victim advocate calls on Apple to rethink how its iMessage edit feature works
- throwoutway 4y agoI would time cap it to “you can edit for 10 minutes after sending”. HN doesn’t let you edit past an hour for comparison