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Google and Apple were both part of the PRISM program, of course I'm making this claim. That's the opposite stance that would be bonkers.

• acdha 2y ago
  PRISM covered communications through U.S. company’s servers. It was not a magic back door giving them access to your device’s local data, and even if you did believe that it was the answer would be not using a phone. A major intelligence agency does not need you to have a Google account so they can spy on you.
  • BiteCode_dev 2y ago
    Forest for the tree. Google and Apple are both heavily invested in ads (apple made 4.7 billion from ads in 2022), they have a track record of exfiltrating your data (remember contractors listening to your siri recordings?), of lying to the customers (remember the home button scandal on iPhone?), have control over a device that have your whole life yet runs partially on code you can't evaluate. Trusting those people makes no sense at all. You have a business relationship with them, that's it.
    • acdha 2y ago
      It’s interesting how each time you say something which isn’t accurate you try to distract by changing the topic.