It was estimated to be $1.5B if they went to trial and lost. I think the threat for a trial was a power play. Easier to let it through to the catcher.
Exactly. People could easily say "why didn’t the plaintiff go to trial if they knew they were right"
If an app is using the microphone, you will get an orange dot (green if the camera is being used) in the corner of your iPhone. There is no way around this, short of a security hole that lets apps bypass all of iOS's security to access the audio hardware directly.
And yet this very story is about a bunch of people taking Apple to court about privacy breaches, and none of them have been assassinated afaik.
…and there is not a single security expert I am aware of who publicly disputes Apples claims.
But did a spouse, family member, friend, coworker, or someone else you spend time with type those words?
I have seen cases where people were presented with YouTube videos or ads about things they merely thought about and they never talked about. No joke. Are they reading people’s minds?
They have to. That’s how they make money. All these billions are from ads. Shocking when you think about it for a moment.
yes. iCloud is enabled for every option it is available for in settings on every device. perhaps to be more clear: had some lists in the Reminders app called Home, Errands, etc. Those lists were all deleted when I moved from Reminders to Things 3 for almost all my tasks management. Once I made that transition a couple of years ago (end of 2022 I think) I deleted everything in Reminders. Now, Reminders is only used for bills (because of how Things 3 handles due dates) and for some shared list with my wife for stuff and kids for their chores. To repeat, all of my Getting Things Done list were deleted a long time ago.
Wow. Very strange. But this does seem like a bug rather than a pointer to some insidious tracking (not saying you implied that). It’s a good thing that the lists were empty.
No, they are afraid that further investigations could reveal a different reality.
It's been detailed in this very thread that defending the lawsuit would cost more than $95m, it's literally impossible for this to be actually going on given how Siri works, and the advertising companies don't need to listen in to conversations, but sure, Apple is secretly lying about one of their biggest selling points and is paying hush money to cover it up.
Who were whistleblowers in this very story? I see only accusers. The two are not the same.
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It would be a great opportunity to prove in a trial you are super privacy oriented... this would have no price, and a company to reinforce this image would be happy to pay more than 95 MUSD.
What would happen if you got better search results if the company stored your results, queries etc with your permission? But they didn’t identify or even know who the person was that made those queries. That would be awesome wouldn’t it?Hmmm. It would seem that the new on by default "Help Apple Improve Search" setting in Sequoia kind of goes against this.
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Apple has recently shown a noticeable tendency to collect, gather, transmit, and sometimes even store privacy-sensitive data – despite repeatedly emphasizing the importance of protecting such data and ensuring it remains solely on the user’s…
That would be true if it were true. But it isn’t.
OR. They agreed that they didn’t tell people that Siri would have false positives and they would be checking (breaching their agreement). Which they openly admitted, took the system down and rebooted it with an opt in only slider.
…unless it has become true.
