For starters, please give up the defeatist attitude. They deserve the frontlash; even if it serves no purpose, as you describe it.
Apple have placed 'Privacy' at the core of their messaging, in order to sell their high-end products. In comparison to the already excessive pearl clutching based on moral panic within the ecosystem e.g. sanitising and censoring language and apps. This is a scope-creep via thought terminating clichés like 'think of the children' and the boogeymen, which will not be enough of an explanation, when Apple ID's start getting locked out for capturing entirely innocent moments of their children's lives, or the intimate holiday snaps etc. Conversely, someone can weaponise it by sending you content that will besmirch your good name, or send you away for a stint in prison.
Nonetheless, they will be a couple of moves away from either a lawsuit/collective action or a pushback from consumers, especially when the algorithm (wrongly) labels you as paedo, porn baron or worse -- then placing you in a Kafkaesque nightmare to explain yourself.
They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice.
Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only.
Who is to say politicians who started threatening tech companies publicly haven’t made threats behind closed doors about Apple maybe being on the hook as an accomplice for distribution?
My company only exists because our CEO had input on an executive order years ago. We hardly “made it” in the free market.
The headlines never tell the full story. Media colludes with politics to generate “the right” sentiment. The spec and implementation details aren’t being discussed, just classic speculation on privacy and overreach.
So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.
We’d have nicer things if we discussed how things work and instead of what corporate media wants us to discuss.
What we should really be hammering on I think is the vendor lock-in, walled garden, and monopolistic aspects.
To me this CP scanning nonsense is Apple waving a carrot in front of the Establishment to get the Anti-Trust heat off, while selling everyone else on further degrading privacy through a slam dunk deliverable to satisfy the short-game players, but that's just me.
If the public isn’t going to push back against establishment politics looking like they did 100 years ago, good luck.
Like waves and particles; it starts with individuals changing their behavior.
But we’d all rather sit around debating ephemeral abstraction (a lot like religion), reconfirming math and the physical universe still work as discovered years ago, as we’re all still “rich enough” the bottom falling out hasn’t gotten to us yet, political problems are for the poor.
The below links encapsulate some parts of why Apple cannot be continually trusted with customer data, or viewed as a paragon for privacy/security. There have been numerous examples, past and present e.g. The Fappening, T2 Chip flaws, atrocious leaks of customer data, Pegasus etc.
Some people with technical prowess, although not deluded, buy these devices with limited desire to constantly tweak or circumvent security features, especially when these devices claim to have them baked in and promise not to intrude.
>So much for this site having a higher level of discourse and it’s efforts to dissuade repetitive and knee jerk commentary though.
I am invested in this ecosystem, so the topic has a certain resonance. I resent your implication that my response to the original author was knee-jerk commentary. Furthermore, I responded to their nonchalance with a view to furnish a counterpoint.
For starters, please give up the defeatist attitude. They deserve the frontlash; even if it serves no purpose, as you describe it.
Apple have placed 'Privacy' at the core of their messaging, in order to sell their high-end products. In comparison to the already excessive pearl clutching based on moral panic within the ecosystem e.g. sanitising and censoring language and apps. This is a scope-creep via thought terminating clichés like 'think of the children' and the boogeymen, which will not be enough of an explanation, when Apple ID's start getting locked out for capturing entirely innocent moments of their children's lives, or the intimate holiday snaps etc. Conversely, someone can weaponise it by sending you content that will besmirch your good name, or send you away for a stint in prison.
Nonetheless, they will be a couple of moves away from either a lawsuit/collective action or a pushback from consumers, especially when the algorithm (wrongly) labels you as paedo, porn baron or worse -- then placing you in a Kafkaesque nightmare to explain yourself.
https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your...