If Apple really stopped the NSA from having access, the company would have already been sued by the Government and likely lost.
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If Apple really stopped the NSA from having access, the company would have already been sued by the Government and likely lost.
Yep liking it so far. Plus it's too for me anyways, I always have a photo section with them (to share with family), they just transferred everything over to the new system.
Not hacked, but also didn't encrypt the stored backup data, from what i recall.
EDIT: Recalled that incorrectly, it was that they didn't offer 2-factor authentication for iCloud backups (in addition to having an exploit in Find My iPhone that allowed for brute forcing).
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And you can bet that Google will mine your photos' metadata to learn your hangouts and use face recognition to find your friends. Combine those two 'features' with the other information they gather about you and you will get even more targeted advertising. Once again, with Google you are the product.
I'd like to hear Jennifer Lawrence's opinion on that. scnr
in case of hers/celebrity, it was more of a weak password and widely known security questions because it's all out in the open. Not the system. My password is probably not what celebrities would use, it's complex and lots of characters.
Know the difference.
There is a desktop app available for that for Mac that can upload your photos from:
- Cameras & Storage Cards
- iPhone Library
- Desktop
- Pictures Folder
https://photos.google.com/apps
Of note, it doesn't support uploading from the new Photos app.
Yup, this! I wonder what kind of concoction they have that would recognize what kind of clothing & shoes you wear, where your location, so they can sell that details to advertisers.
It's not about laws, it's about products and with Google your photos are their product or better said your personal life will be used to advertise more precisely and to do market research.
Why do people don't get this?
Apple at least used to check email titles. Remember the brouhaha a couple of years ago when Apple's servers starting automatically deleting emails with the words "barely legal teen" in the title?
At least Google gives back something in return for our info.
Apple uses our info for selling iAds, plus gets paid by banks to continue to allow our full purchase info to get through to them (unlike Google Wallet, which acted as a proxy), and what services do they give us free in return?
iCloud was at fault as well. Before the incident, a hacker was able to bruteforce access without getting locked out.
"You are the product" is just plain wrong. Everyone is caught up on this, and I think Tim Cook was the first big name to say it. A person is more than random statistics, which is what Google uses to sell Ad Space. They sometimes share anonymized data with advertisers. But if you value your life to just data, that's sad.
So they aren't lying since the service is free in the sense that it is applied to the monetary cost of the service, as that is the main aspect relating to the price of something that is generally communicated to the consumer.
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Not only in the title
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/mac/apple-censoring-icloud-emails-attachments-3432561/
I tried with a pdf inside a zip and icloud deleted it
couldnt give a flying if they analyze my eating habits and favorite artists as long as i gain sth as well.
big data isnt something new, everyone does it.
its not like they r walking to the advertising agency and r like Xy Xy born xy in xy working as xy in the xy department on street xy living in xy with blood type xy ... lol
Google isn't selling 'random' statistics. That would be ineffective and worthless. They are selling highly specific profile information that results in higher click-through rates on the ads. A lot of people seem to be more than willing to give up their privacy in exchange for being the recipient of targeted advertising. Now that is sad.
I really hope this spurs Apple into reducing the price of their 1TB tier. $20 a month is just too much.
You do realize that the highest resolution iPhone camera takes 8 meg photos, right?
Which means that with the 16 megs threshold, you really don't have to worry about downscaling....
I am happy to see this service, although I've been using Dropbox for a while and it works well.
iCloud is so limited, including for stuff like data sharing, that it is practically useless and I cancelled my plan.
I just wish we can have Google Photos natively on Apple TV.