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> If you don’t want your device to be included in that tally of nearby contacts for others, you can toggle it off. Just remember that leaving it on won’t tell y
by andy_xor_andrew 3y ago
> If you don’t want your device to be included in that tally of nearby contacts for others, you can toggle it off. Just remember that leaving it on won’t tell your friends—or Apple—anything about you personally.
That sentence seems like a self-contradiction?
If it didn't tell my friends--or Apple--anything about me, how can it result in my friends getting journaling suggestions that are different based on whether the feature is enabled or not?
Unless the author thinks "knowing who you were with and when" does not count as "knowing anything about you," which I would strongly disagree with, and I'm not even generally a paranoid person like some on HN are (no offense to them, glad they're paying attention)
- shuckles 3y agoYou can know how many of your friends are nearby without knowing who they are.
- chatmasta 3y agoThe text beneath the toggle is "Allows others to detect you are nearby to help prioritize their suggestions." This implies it's broadcasting some beacons containing my phone number to nearby devices, which can listen for those beacons and compare them with their contacts list.
- shuckles 3y agoYeah, appears that way: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/journaling-suggestions/ https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/journaling-sugge.... The caveat is that devices store counts not identities, but it does seem like some notion of identity is broadcasted.