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Apple Hosts Secretive Conferences to Teach Law Enforcement How to Better Use iPhone, CarPlay and Vision Pro for Police Work
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So Tim wants to get his altruistic foot in the door by having LE agencies write their own enterprise apps. How benevolent.
Yes but from the sound of it, the sessions were teaching them how to use the safety features they might not know about, like how to check for blood type and allergies, contact emergency contacts, know what they’re seeing when they get an automatic alert from the phone, etc.
This is excellent, I’m all for it. I hope this training is given more widely.
Something with multiple high resolution cameras and other sensors watching surroundings and your hands and eyes at all times? Sounds useful to me. Sounds like a sci-fi murder mystery. Person found dead with Vision Pro on. Rewind, find the last thing the victim saw! Zoom and enhance!
…this killed me 🤣🤣🤣
They gotta be careful, wouldn’t want to accidentally make the crime scene video recordings evidence useless due to leaving the AVP cameras all glazed and smudgy.
That'd be great if that's what it was for. You'd think they'd trumpet it from the rooftops like their other safety initiatives rather than holding clandestine conferences, though? Seems like a strange choice when Apple's generally pretty good with getting the word out about the positive impacts their technology can have.
You do realize that you're never going to get ad revenue spinning it like that
If the purpose of this was “No, we won’t help you get access to private data but in exchange, we will show you how to better use what’s already available even more efficiently “ , then I don’t see a contradiction with their pro-privacy marketing.
But i can understand why this would be misinterpreted by a lot people and why they would want to keep it quiet.
But i can understand why this would be misinterpreted by a lot people and why they would want to keep it quiet.
No, law enforcement agencies should use only open software based tools. They manage super sensitive (personal) data... They cannot trust any "blackbox" device.
Evenl here people understood it was a sales/commercial event, but reality is much more scaring.
You read want you want to read in the article... Maybe safari has changed the article content...
I'm proud to be a good citizen for the community I live in; I'm not proud to be a customer of ANY company.
And you shouldn't be too: bear in mind, for them you are just an ID in a database... no more!
Do something to be proud of...
They know already a lot. Here in Germany Cops called my brother over emergency contakt at my phone (that's okay). But i always will warn intensivly; do not use face id. You never know, what will happen in your life in the future and what will bring you in trouble - even if you are innocent. For futher infos ask your attourney ;-).
That’s a really sad way of viewing the world.
I regard all of us as being part of one big Apple family. Nobody is just an ID in a database. We all contribute to making this ecosystem of products and services the best in the world.
I wonder whom in society is more computer ignorant cops or teachers?
Those with erratic comments like the one I’m taking some time to reply to.
If they're teaching law enforcement investigative techniques to get the maximum possible information out of an iPhone/Apple product, within the confines of the current security measures, without having to resort to specialized equipment (and without providing backdoors for them), is that something you really want everybody else in the world to know how to do?
If my phone/device is stolen or otherwise falls into the wrong hands, I'd prefer that they were as dumb as possible about what information they could extract from it. I'd prefer that Apple didn't "trumpet it from the rooftops". Criminals pay attention to that kind of intel too. There are plenty of things that I'm perfectly okay with law enforcement being secretive about and not revealing to the general public.
I definitely want as many people to know as possible. Being knowledgable about potential attack vectors helps people protect themselves and others. We can't make an effort to mitigate the damage a bad actor could do if we don't know a vulnerability exists. More knowledge also helps limit the spread of bad information and harmful advice.
The American government sure has our best interests. Affordable housing and heathcare is so overrated anyways. Giving an AVP to every pig with a badge is a top priority. /s
This is rationalizing.
The uncomfortable truth is that the "power of the individual" concept only works in a situation where the pie is big enough for everybody to get a share. Today the size of the pie is getting smaller by the hour and therefore the need for greater control and surveillance is much higher.
Eh, maybe it's just part of it. I have met enough cops through IT work to know that most of them are fairly tech illiterate and really do need the tech help just to do their jobs. I doubt Apple was telling them how to illegally seize and search phones.
I'm not sure the need for control and surveillance is any higher than it has ever been. Soviet Russia was big on control and surveillance too, didn't work out great for people there.
Khrushchev was a Trotsky follower and started subversion of the Soviet Union since 1953 including implementation of the abortion and so on. USSR still lasted until the 1991 and Russia is still a player today which implies that the Soviet foundation is very sound to say the least.
Unless it's:
Emergency contacts--
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--#2---most awesome prostitute
--#3---Murder for hire