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The only way this feature could work is by broadcasting my information to nearby devices. That's enough reason to turn it off, especially given the only claimed
by chatmasta 3y ago
The only way this feature could work is by broadcasting my information to nearby devices. That's enough reason to turn it off, especially given the only claimed benefit is that someone writing in their journaling app can have a marginally faster autocomplete experience when typing a string that is similar to my name.
- jrmg 3y agoThat’s not a claimed benefit. The article says it only tracks how many people you know are around you, not who they are. Apple’s usually pretty on top of this kind of thing. For example, there was the privacy-preserving Covid proximity thing, and I believe the Find My network works without allowing others to track you? Is there some fancy cryptographic algorithm that allows a person to broadcast something that allows others that already know them to recognize that a person they know is broadcasting (perhaps not even a specific person, just one they know) - without allowing people they don’t know to recognize they are the same person if they see them again?
- gcr 3y agoI do wonder how a dinner party host’s device can distinguish which guests are in their contacts from which ones aren’t.