Sadly I used to believe that but no longer don they’ve already been busted a few times. People just go “duh it’s a tech company”
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Apple sending voice data to third parties. Settings for this only came out after Apple was caught.
Confirmed: Apple Caught In Siri Privacy Scandal, Let Contractors Listen To Private Voice Recordings
Atherton Research's Principal Analyst and Futurist Jeb Su unpacks the ramifications of Apple letting outside contractors access private conversations of Siri users.
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Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says
An independent test suggests Apple collects data about you and your phone when its own settings promise to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.”
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Apple fined for illegal data collection for ads:
Nearly impossible to keep iPhone data away from Apple:
Keeping iPhone Data Hidden From Apple Is ‘Virtually Impossible’
Despite Apple’s privacy focus, your iPhone might not be as private as you think, according to a new warning from researchers.
www.forbes.com
So these aren’t bugs. This is built in. Not sure what you mean about backdoors bc that’s irrelevant because:
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
arstechnica.com
Apple sending voice data to third parties. Settings for this only came out after Apple was caught.
Confirmed: Apple Caught In Siri Privacy Scandal, Let Contractors Listen To Private Voice Recordings
Atherton Research's Principal Analyst and Futurist Jeb Su unpacks the ramifications of Apple letting outside contractors access private conversations of Siri users.
This seems very spectacular until you realize there was no way the third party could do something at scale with it, except make siri better, no data mining or what ever malicious intent, was it clumsy of Apple not to mention it in the first place sure … was it usable for something other than making voice recognition better, NO
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Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says
An independent test suggests Apple collects data about you and your phone when its own settings promise to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.”
Apple fined for illegal data collection for ads:
Nearly impossible to keep iPhone data away from Apple:
Keeping iPhone Data Hidden From Apple Is ‘Virtually Impossible’
Despite Apple’s privacy focus, your iPhone might not be as private as you think, according to a new warning from researchers.
Yeah logical if you sign in to iCloud and the App Store … which by the way use your own data to propose relevant information, if you do not want this do not sign into these services, but then again why even bus a smartphone …
So these aren’t bugs. This is built in. Not sure what you mean about backdoors bc that’s irrelevant because:
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
So none issues in the big scheme of things, but media and gulable people love these stories, but yeah all big tech is evil, time to dig up that Nokia again …