Are you referring to collecting data about if an email was read? No sender has a right to that information.
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Apple Highlights iPhone's Latest Privacy Features in New 'Data Auction' Ad
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Then why formulate the two options in the popup so confusing? Backdoor isn't it? Because it is darn difficult to undo the choice after you clicked the wrong one.
Here is a suggestion for a better and honest UX:
"Allow tracking? Yes /No"
Here is a suggestion for a better and honest UX:
"Allow tracking? Yes /No"
Apple Fights Child Abuse Images by Scanning Users' Uploaded iCloud Photos
Apple is using image-matching technology to help find and report child abuse. Does that mean Apple is breaking into iPhones to scan photos?
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Their privacy stance isn't universally applicable. It depends on the user's location.
I wonder what data the Chinese government can access and have seen since Apple has a data center there.
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising human rights fears
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud.
Apple criticised for storing data inside China
The tech giant said it was complying with local law but did not compromise data security.
www.bbc.com
And there are numerous countries where Apple's Private Relay isn't available.
I like Apple's approach to privacy. That's important part of why I have all those shiny Apple products.
But it's privacy ads are almost always waaay over the top. I understand why they try really hard to sell their privacy idea to the customers but I'm not sure whether the end justifies the means here.
Also, when I'll be able to do Siri offline? On iPhone, on HomePod, on Watch (via iPhone if necessary). The voice control part shouldn't be *that* hard as Google got it sorted out for years now. I'm glad Sonos is doing something in this regard at least.
Edit: My bad. Some features of Siri are now available offline with iOS 15. Kudos and sorry Tim Apple.
But it's privacy ads are almost always waaay over the top. I understand why they try really hard to sell their privacy idea to the customers but I'm not sure whether the end justifies the means here.
Also, when I'll be able to do Siri offline? On iPhone, on HomePod, on Watch (via iPhone if necessary). The voice control part shouldn't be *that* hard as Google got it sorted out for years now. I'm glad Sonos is doing something in this regard at least.
Edit: My bad. Some features of Siri are now available offline with iOS 15. Kudos and sorry Tim Apple.
But, your phone was programmed by Apple to do that, so why is this not on Apple anyways? Another point is a company like Apple shouldn't even have suggested that "feature" in the first place.
Too bad they’ve all but given up on building out Apple Mail. It’s lacking in useful features, which have driven me to replace it, and my only/primary email service is iCloud.
This is one reason why people just use Google products and services. "It just works". Just like how some iOS users are aware they're entering a walled garden, some Android users are aware of those limitations, and choose to deal with them in a similar manner
So another marketing campaign like we used to see with the "Privacy" billboards and messages.
Something to do with these recent EU and other country "requests" seems to have Apple (not seeing Google marketing ads) all in a tither. Maybe for good reason?
How about Apple be straight up and honest for a change?
Something to do with these recent EU and other country "requests" seems to have Apple (not seeing Google marketing ads) all in a tither. Maybe for good reason?
How about Apple be straight up and honest for a change?
I actually used ATT the other day. I went looking for a new calorie tracker and landed on MyNetDiary for the reason of it not actually linking data to you. (It is collecting your calorie count so it has to collect some data.) All the other top calorie trackers collect and link the data to you. Why? Why does it need to be linked to me? And so ATT worked, and I feel better not being tracked.
Correct, they didn't propose scanning photos on your phone and selling the data on the open market, they proposed GIVING IT TO THE GOVERNMENT. Much more insidious and evil.
I mean, I love Apple.
But after the whole CSAM situation...sounds a bit hypocritical.
This doesn't change the fact it's much better than google.
But after the whole CSAM situation...sounds a bit hypocritical.
This doesn't change the fact it's much better than google.
You are one of the leeches the rest of us are trying to avoid. Get a new career that adds to society. I’ll take the supposed detriment over receiving a single email I do t want and did not ask for.
I too am in the marketing business. You may not sell info on email engagement, but you likely store that data and customize future email campaigns based on previous opens, whether that be the types of products the consumer would likely click on or the type of creative that may get them to click. The reality is many people, including myself, don't want to be marketed via email. If we want a product/service we know how to search it out ourselves. The fact that the job of "email marketer" exists is a reason by itself to have tools that "cause havoc" on email marketers. If you weren't storing that data for actionable purposes then it wouldn't cause you havoc, right?
Apple quickly and openly really showed their ugly face when China simply said "We want all the data." Apple gave them data and the golden key faster than the speed of light. No fight to privacy at all. Smoke and mirrors.
Yes it is insidious, but let's not lose sight of the fact that it is not evil to prevent child pornography.
Also, they're not giving over the photos - the photos remain encrypted. They're handing over the hashes - which really contain no data. Also, hashes are pretty infallible in terms of proof - there would not be any false positives.
The insidiousness of it is due to the fact Apple essentially delegated to the government the job of making a black-list of hashes. While the intent is to fill that list with hashes of known CP, there is no way to ensure that the government doesn't add other non-CP hashes to the list for purpose of investigating other non-CP matters. There is, inherent in this system, a woeful lack of oversight.
But evil, it is not.
But to treat all customers like criminals in an attempt to be proactive?
Seriously, no.
Let me see if I understand - You have a problem with users being able to choose NOT to share data? As a citizen of a free country, this is frankly an absurd take.
As a mobile phone user, why shouldn’t I be able to choose which data I share?
Is it?
Devs claim "we don't collect ..." but Apple does not verify these claims. Apple does "random" audits of some apps.
Google is now doing the same as of April 2022.
I'd put them on par for apps and privacy.
I personally spend way too much time and effort to stop the spam on cell number, text, and email.
Then you should educate yourself about how the mechanism works: it has a table of hashes of specific CSAM pictures that are already known to be circulating between pedophiles. If you have one or more of those pictures on your phone, it would throw up a red flag. So unless you've been been taking pics of your kids in the pool and uploading those pics to pedophile forums, you should have absolutely zero problems with this system mistakenly red flagging your pics. It's not looking at the content of the pics, it's looking for exact matches with pics already known to be bad.
(By the way, "CSAM" is the name used for the bad content itself, "Child Sexual Abuse Material", not for any of the various mechanisms that have been designed to detect it.)
They also have an entirely different mechanism, which can optionally be turned on, that looks at the content of pics sent to kids, using machine learning algorithms, and if, say, your 8yo daughter's iPad detects, say, a dick pic arriving in the Messages app, it'll pop up a message on her device only, saying something along the lines of, "this picture appears to show a sensitive part of the body, you may want to check with mom or dad before viewing it" - it doesn't report anything to the parents or to Apple, it doesn't keep the kid from viewing the picture, it just gives the kid an age-appropriate dialog box equivalent of the "NSFW" tag that adults might find on a pic or forum post.
Apple made a rather big PR mistake of initially talking about these two separate mechanisms on the same day, and people started conflating the two.
People also got upset that the CSAM detection mechanism was "scanning all their pictures" - putting aside that "computing a hash" is entirely different than what people think of when you say "scanning"... guess what, code in iOS is already scanning all your pictures (and has been, for years) in order to locate/tag human faces as well as pets/animals, objects, etc. - if you go into Photos and search for "dog" or "car", it'll show you pictures that contain dogs or cars. It can do that, at a reasonable speed, because is has already built an index, as the pictures came in.
And, again, the CSAM detection isn't "scanning" your pictures in that it isn't looking at an image and trying to figure out what it is (this is the part that people worry is going to incorrectly flag pics of their kids in the pool) - the CSAM detection only computes a hash (a checksum) for the picture and compares that hash against a table of hashes of already-known-to-be-circulating CSAM pics - your random pool pics are not going to be listed in that table (unless you've been uploading them to pedophile forums). People also complained "but it's doing the CSAM detection on my phone!" - well, yes, yes it is; Apple decided doing everything on your phone was better at preserving your privacy - the alternative would be to scan your pics once they're uploaded to iCloud (which would mean that your pics on iCloud could not be encrypted) - this is what many other services are already doing. And, for those saying, "well, but Apple shouldn't be doing any of this in the first place"... yeah, well, the government is working on making some sort of CSAM detection mandatory everywhere - so Apple devised the most privacy-protecting mechanism they could, to deal with that.
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If it's worthless data, then losing access to it shouldn't bother you in the slightest. If you highly desire it, as seems to be the case, then it follows that is of value to you. Saying "it's worthless BUT YOU MUST GIVE IT TO ME" just makes you sound disingenuous. If it's truly worthless to you, then stop asking for it. If it's worth something to you, then make a deal with the customer you're taking it from - offer them something in exchange for the data, and see if they're willing to take you up on that.
Apple didn't turn off the tap, Apple just gave your customers control over the tap. Your customers turned off the tap. You seem to be unhappy that Apple gave your customers more control. I'm on Apple's side (and your customer's side) on this one.
