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by Despegar 7y ago
>The solution should be to education society, not lock down information flow to protect society. An extremely 90s tech utopian world view that time has proven to be misguided. And if you're not adjusting your thinking after the mult
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What is there to iterate? Just go back in Google's history and use the design from 2007.
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Some things happening to Muslims in the world today (in addition to India) off the top of my head: -Genocide of Rohingya in Myanmar -Ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs in China Then there's just garden variety xenophobic polices like travel b
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Excellent New Yorker piece about this (I submitted it to HN when it came out but it didn't get any traction): https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil... Fascism is gaining in ma
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>If Apple wants a reputation for privacy and respecting its customers, then it has to put them first. "or used as an excuse for new legislation against encryption." By not making iCloud backups end-to-end encrypted, they likely
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Apple can't comply with a law enforcement request to get into your iPhone. They can comply with anything in your iCloud Backup except for the things under End-to-end encrypted data on this page [1]. Backups are encrypted "in trans
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>Most people, including technically knowledgable users here on HN, were unaware iCloud backups have always been unencrypted. iCloud backups are definitely encrypted. They just aren't end-to-end encrypted. That should have been plain
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You're absolutely right. They could have definitely misled anyone that didn't read the entire support article, including the first paragraph under Data Security: >iCloud secures your information by encrypting it when it's
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If you scroll down another line you'll see another section titled: End-to-end encrypted data
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The question and his answer were both completely clear. And most importantly, it's perfectly consistent with what Apple has said multiple times. You can believe they lied to a federal court and Congress if you want, but I certainly don
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There's no disinformation in my comments. I seem to be one of the few people on the planet who seems to have actually dug into this exact issue while others only offer the typical FUD we've seen about how Apple's encryption w
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They have never hidden how iCloud backups or anything else related to iOS security works. This support document spells out clearly what data is end-to-end encrypted [1]. No one was actually misled into thinking all iCloud data was E2E. For
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>1) There is no way Apple would be allowed to sell iPhones in China, without China government having access to anything. So, I assume that Apple users in China have e2e encrypted exactly nothing. E2E works exactly the same in China. You
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I've said it before in another comment [1]: >There's nothing I enjoy more than the plight of the German Saver, who's obsession with "fiscal responsibility" has led to shitty austerity politics all across the EU (
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I mean if you scroll down a little more you'll see what data is actually end-to-end encrypted.
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This piece starts with Tile and Apple but that isn't going to go anywhere in terms of antitrust. Tile's grievance is just the standard multi-decade grievance of a startup that gets sherlocked by Apple and incorporated into the OS.
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> Users are demanding greater privacy--including transparency, choice and control over how their data is used--and it’s clear the web ecosystem needs to evolve to meet these increasing demands. Some browsers have reacted to these concern
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>The solution is not to force Apple to police developers but for you to stop using Terminus. The actual scalable solution is for Congress or states to pass GDPR-style privacy legislation (or CCPA if your politicians are captured by tech
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>As Google has moved to expand its data collection, some potential partners have been put off by what they viewed as the company’s aggressive maneuvers to acquire data without providing enough information on how it would be used. >Goo
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>You can't compare Netflix/Amazon with Youtube. Yes we absolutely can. YouTube's business model depending on user generated content is their choice. Not being able to review all the content is entirely a problem for Google
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>Instead, the rules weren’t tight enough to stop the current shitshow we now have. Your explicit opt in is a nice single button click, on a modal that fills the entire screen. It tells you nothing about what happens, it’s just easy. I wo
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Here's a profile of him. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-... >What's his motif for this? Making a dent in the universe.
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CCPA is no doubt inferior to GDPR for that very reason. But to keep things in perspective, CCPA was only passed as a compromise because Alastair Mactaggart, a rich real estate developer, forced their hand by threatening to make it a ballot
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>I suspect the Attorney General will take as broad a view as possible, so I'd steer clear from any startups that think this is a good idea. He was one of two AGs to not join other state AGs in their antitrust investigation of Facebo
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>There is also lack of clarity on what constitutes “sale” of information, retail lobbyists and attorneys advising retailers said. It's embarrassing that the law isn't more explicit that this also covers "sharing" wher
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The reality is that there's clearly no mandate that all content on Apple TV+ needs to be family friendly, and we know that from what they have released. Dr. Dre's show and the Richard Gere project may have been canceled because
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Our collective privacy problem is not your fault(fastcompany.com)
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There's no fan community yet because the service just launched and it's starting from zero subscribers. The 1 year trial requires a hardware purchase, so that will only start to build a critical mass over the next year or so. I do
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Corellium may have developed an excellent product technically, and they might be selling a useful service, but they still infringed Apple's intellectual property. It's up to Apple to decide if they want to make a virtualized iOS a
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I've been saying this for a long time, but there's no technical solution to staying private. It's not scalable and no one has time to janitor every product and service they use in their lives. The only solution to it is regul

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