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I mean, Apple has put Lidar into a decent percentage of iPhones over the past few years. Wifi and cellular signals can be used in a similar way to generate low-
by dont__panic 4y ago
I mean, Apple has put Lidar into a decent percentage of iPhones over the past few years. Wifi and cellular signals can be used in a similar way to generate low-resolution maps of the world around your phone. And there's of course cameras on the front and back.
All running on closed source Apple software, with no physical on/off switch for those data collection pathways... or even the phone itself, which never fully shuts down. So maybe Tim Cook really is Big Brother.
- prange 4y agoThere are no data pathways for aggregating that data. It just gets used by apps.
- coldtea 4y agoSays who?
- prange 4y agoSays Apple in their privacy policies. If you have even the slightest evidence to the contrary, now is the time to present it.
- coldtea 4y ago
- prange 4y ago
- ben_w 4y agoOk, so I trust Apple about privacy, but back when I tried self publishing on the App Store I kept every copy of the developer agreement because running diff was the only practical way to know about half the changes they made, and for which I was only given a Hobson's choice to accept or stop using the store. I don't trust them to stay good forever. I definitely don't trust them to not get infiltrated by government agents who want the sensor data. I only mostly trust their digital security enough for Apple Pay and Keychain. I recognise none of this is evidence against Apple as it is today, and that my concerns speak of hypotheticals. But then, I don't think of anyone at Apple as Big Brother; the closest is that I find their content rules to be that frustrating Anglosphere dichotomy which treats sexuality as vastly worse than violence.
- prange 4y agoSure - anyone is capable of doing something bad in the future. But, it is utterly dishonest to claim they are doing it now if you have no evidence.