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Sure it is. This isn't a feature or setting that users check often or ever. Now, their data is being sent without their permission or knowledge.
by CapcomGo 2y ago
Sure it is. This isn't a feature or setting that users check often or ever. Now, their data is being sent without their permission or knowledge.
- latexr 2y agoWhich is wrong but doesn’t make it a coverup, which by definition assumes trying to hide evidence of wrongdoing.
- talldayo 2y agoIt is a coverup. Apple is overtly and completely aware of the optics surrounding photo scanning - they know that an opt-in scheme cannot work as they found out previously. Since they cannot convince users to enable this feature in good-faith, they are resorting to subterfuge. We know that Apple is vehement about pushing client-side scanning on users that do not want it, I do not believe for a second that this was a mistake or unintended behavior. If this was a bug then it would have been hotfixed immediately to prevent the unintended behavior from reaching any more phones than it already had.
- threeseed 2y ago> they are resorting to subterfuge This is illogical. If Apple wanted to engage in subterfuge they would simply compromise the OS. When a company controls the entire stack either you trust everything they do. Or nothing.
- latexr 2y agoExactly. It is absolutely bonkers that people are claiming that Apple is trying to cover up something for which they have a settings toggle and public documentation.
- kemayo 2y agoYeah, we might quibble about what the default value of the toggle should be, but them adding settings for minor features like this is absolutely a good thing, and very much a sign that they're not trying to hide things. If anything, the lesson Apple might take from this could be "adding the settings toggle was a bad idea, because nobody would have cared about this at all otherwise".