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Apple to Publish Privacy Labels for Preinstalled iOS Apps on Website
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Like with food labels, only a very small minority will pay attention to them. Most people will continue to ignore them and just make oversimplified generalization such as "burgers are bad" (it's really the fries and the soft drink that are the killer, not the burger itself). Hmmm... now I feel like a burger...
They have been, Apple has the been the most upfront about privacy out of all public companies out there.
Can you please provide references and links? All traffic, inbound and outbound should go through the VPN. Basic security practice.
The proof at least for me, is that Apple didn’t lower the iPhones price. You may argue whatever you want, but is a fact that Apple is saving millions USD with the “smart” environmental argument.
Thanks for asking. I have a lot of USB-A chargers in my drawers, but I only have one USB-C charger (the one included with my 11 Pro), but I will sure give it away when I hand my current 11 Pro to my niece. And yes, they will tell me that I can use one of the many USB-A chargers that I have, but then the USB-C / Lightning included with the 12 would be useless, which by the way, throws the environmental argument away.
My mistake! I assumed my statement regarding straightforwardness and honor would only be directed at the article's focus on privacy.
Again, as far as hardware and iOS goes, I agree that Apple wasn't being 100% forthcoming with the charger bricks and slowing old phones down.
it could have also just been a boneheaded oversight with the slowing old phones down and they really believed they were doing what's best for customers (debateable, or course)
.and the environment
There isn't a business principle, capitalist principle, or even a principle of human nature that Facebook could pick a fight about and come out looking good. It's just not possible.
Where both of you are wrong is that its ok for Apple to look at my picture library stored in iCloud but not to sell it or let others look at it. This alone is invasion of privacy.
Anonymous data collection like whats the average photo library size, how many people still using iphone 6...etc is ok. Whats not ok when they have info specifically on me stored in a profile that they can bring up at any time and see what I am doing like contacts on my phone, my emails, my browsing history....etc
Apple today does this in different degrees for example iMessages are encrypted but Siri recordings are stored and listened to. [Link of Proof]
The plus points Apple have over Facebook and Goolag is that:
1-They don't sell or share your data (so thats better at least)
2-They collect only data they feel is needed to help improve their services/software.
In contrast, Facebook and Google would like to collect even the number of breaths you take a day if they could and if they get caught they will just say "its a bug" and get away with it.
Agreed. Actually iMessages can also be read by Apple. What Apple has not done and refuses to do is to use zero-knowledge encryption.
Honestly I’d welcome that, I’m happy to pay a small fee to keep them independent. I dare say that for many others “be careful what you wish for” may come into effect yeah
So you have an issue with the phone, not "Apple" cataloging your pictures. As far as I know this happens on the phone, not on Apples servers (but I sure if incorrect, someone will chime in). If you feel that is an invasion of privacy, the iphone isn't for you...however, I believe that can be turned off by deleting one of the albums.
Again, you can turn off icloud synching.
All of this can be turned off. If you want to use Siri, but not have your Siri recordings stored, I believe that's a no go. Don't enable Siri. You can turn off virtually everything and use the iphone as a flip-phone. But every ecosystem that provides some type of customer experience, stores data for that purpose. Some more than others.
If that is all true, it still is in a different category and definition of what constitutes "privacy"... which you do acknowledge in the last 2 paragraphs.
I might have to disagree with you on the carte blanche access Apple has: I'm pretty sure, not 100%, that Apple anonymizes data and does group data collection. At least that is what they advertise.
You can download your Apple ID data and see what they have stored on you. Some of the things that I didn't know about and bothered me is that they have a log of my phone calls with timestamps and durations. Albeit, I don't know if this information is encrypted and only accessible to me or accessible to Apple employees too. They also have your browsing history. I believe all your iCloud stored files are not encrypted and accessible by them too.
They could do more like encrypting the data and have it accessible only to me by my devices. I use ProtonMail and its an encrypted inbox, only the password holder can see whats inside of it, and I can see it on all my devices although its stored in the cloud.
Some stuff from Apple is encrypted like iMessages and others are not.
actually that would be awesome! Now people are either forced to use the free Signal encrypted messaging app or pay money and not have their life spied on. This would be akin to the gov. releasing a rule that you can only take a loan equaling 30% of your income or back it up with an asset. Now no one will be burried in debt and go to jail and they will always have 70% of their income to live off. Sometimes you need to guide people not to abuse their freedom of choice(like limiting alcohol consumption, minimum age of smoking, ban on drugs).
What isn't encrypted? The entire iphone file system is encrypted. icloud is encrypted (although accessible with a court order and maybe not end to end). The only thing that skirts by is an unencrypted itunes backup, by user choice.
And sure, they could do more, which is a good general statement. But if one is really concerned about this:
- don't register phone with an apple id
- don't take pictures
- don't use icloud
- don't use siri
- don't download apps, etc.
I had forgotten about the Apple ID data check to see what they have on me... I'm going to try that now
*super cool, thanks. https://privacy.apple.com/account
Not.... really.....
It WOULD be cool for privacy's sake to have Facebook and WhatsApp be paid services and then not sell the data they collect to advertisers.
And I agree there WOULD be whining about the cost to use those services because of the cost of paying all the employees and running the servers holding all the data.
But, those companies have freedom of choice to run their business model as it is with selling data to advertisers, and people have freedom of choice to either use it and allow for that data collection/selling... or not use the services.
If it went to a paid model, it would be because the company had the freedom to run their business model as such, and again for people to have the freedom to buy their service, or not.
Government bans and laws are unrelated... unless you're proposing that the Government tells Facebook to stop selling the data to advertisers.... in which case, Facebook would cease to be since people would rightly balk at the price it would take to keep Facebook running. (If I had to pull a number out my butt, I would guess at least $10 a month.)
Keep government out of business so they can succeed or fail on their own! haha
I love how you added your own second half to the sentence, one upping the assumptions.
If we follow that logic then the gov. should not interfere with anything business or regulate anything. This include substances including in all foods, age restrictions, drug prescriptions, hygiene level in restaurants, warning labels, forced food labels..etc etc We should just let the businesses do whatever and the people choose.
Point is, some sort of regulations needs to happen to create a standard of quality and trust. They least they could do is put a clear label warning on products when you signup on what is going to be collected. Most people are extremely unaware and even I who is privacy concerned didn't know some data companies collect. I was surprised to see a password stored in my AppleID keychain that I deleted months or years ago for example...don't know why that happened. And No..the ToS is not enough. No one will read an 120 page ToS of every app or service they use online just like no one will go in the kitchen of every restaurant they eat from to check if everything is clean and proper. They trust the government to do that.
Thats not how encryption works, encryption means no one has access to it except the person with the password. If they can access it, you might as well leave it unencrypted same results.
You can do all this without data collection. I can take a picture without them knowing about it, I can store my files in iCloud and its encrypted(In fact Proton is releasing ProtonDrive very soon that does this exactly). You can use digital assistant without storing your voice recordings (https://mycroft.ai). Apple choose to use a less private way.