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Apple has been a great privacy advocate but doesn’t get mentioned in comments like these and gets dragged through the mud for having proprietary cables and part
by an0malous 11mo ago
Apple has been a great privacy advocate but doesn’t get mentioned in comments like these and gets dragged through the mud for having proprietary cables and particular UI aesthetics. It’s interesting to observe who it’s fashionable to hate and the double standards this community applies to tech companies.
- submeta 11mo agoYou mean the Apple that gets targeted by Israel spyware firms constantly? The Apple iPhone used by a Saudi journalist named Adman Khasoggi whose iphone was hacked with Israeli spyware, targeted and murdered? Just one example. Apple devices aren’t secure either.
- an0malous 11mo agoI mean the Apple that refuses to build government backdoors in spite of intense pressure from possibly the most powerful entity in the world, the US military intelligence community. You're also conflating security with privacy, a security hole is unintentional it's not like they were selling their customer's information. No system is perfectly secure. Apple has done more to address those issues than any other tech company. They’re targeted because they’re popular, maybe your antagonism should be directed towards the country that openly sells such software to murderous authoritarian regimes or the government that condones it from their alleged “greatest ally”
- bigyabai 11mo agoRefuses is not the right word, there is no way to audit Apple's refusal or hold them accountable here. US Senator Ron Wyden whistleblew how iOS Push Notifications are collected by US intelligence, which is concerning when you consider how much iMessage relies on it: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surveil-push-notifications/ https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve... https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/imessage_push_notifications_hard_to_block https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/imessage_push_notificatio...
- jfindper 11mo agoThis is a silly take unless you believe that Apple facilitated its devices being hacked. Privacy and security are two different things. "It’s interesting to observe who it’s fashionable to hate and the double standards this community applies to tech companies" Indeed....
- NooneAtAll3 11mo agoyou mean Apple that scans all your photos to send to police? despite all the flak it got after first attempt at doing so?
- an0malous 11mo agosource?
- zwnow 11mo agoYou mean Apple that said they'd never spy on their users only to be caught spying on their users?
- an0malous 11mo agosource?
- zwnow 10mo agoYou can just check on the Siri Privacy Lawsuit from 2021 which was recently settled.
- an0malous 10mo agoThis is absurd, the lawsuit alleged Apple was recording conversations and selling them to advertisers. There was no proof, just a settlement due to the fact that they might have recorded conversations from mistakenly identifying users saying “Hey Siri”. To characterize that as “spying” is misleading at best and lying to most reasonable people.
- zwnow 10mo agoJust read Cory Doctorows most recent book. It features the enshittification of Apple, I am sure you'll find enough reasons urself to distrust Apple. There is not a single tech giant out there to be trusted with your data.