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Put a proxy on macOS or iOS and see how both incessantly phone home to Apple, including on both which programs you’re running and when. Apple’s privacy reputat
by user3939382 4y ago
Put a proxy on macOS or iOS and see how both incessantly phone home to Apple, including on both which programs you’re running and when.
Apple’s privacy reputation is mostly marketing and boils down to “if anyone’s going to spy on you it’s going to be us!”
- s3p 4y agoDo you read apple's privacy policy? They go to extreme lengths to ensure none of the diagnostic data they collect is personally identifiable without user permission. They invest millions into certain programs [1] to ensure they can collect data in a way that doesn't even point back to any specific identifier. I just don't see how you could equate apple to every other company and accuse them of spying on their users when it is clearly not the case. You have options when it comes to phones and computers and only one fortune 500 company seems seriously committed to keeping their users personal info private. [1] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Overview.pdf https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...
- user3939382 4y agoThere’s tons of research on the weakness and reversibility of differential privacy. Privacy doesn’t mean being or making representations that you’re being a good steward of the information you’ve spied on me to collect, it means not collecting it.