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"Switch to Android if you don't like it!"
"Apple decides how it works on THEIR phones ... 'NUFF SAID"
"Maybe you should leave!"
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UK Government Issues New Order to Access iCloud User Data
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You know what's coming ... 😉 😂
"Switch to Android if you don't like it!"
"Apple decides how it works on THEIR phones ... 'NUFF SAID"
"Maybe you should leave!"
UK subjects (don't forget NI).
The interesting thing is that I am a US citizen living in the UK. I doubt that makes me immune from this potentially intrusive surveillance, but the way the news articles have been written it is ambiguous.
All of this is predicated on the UK government having a warrant. Surely warrants to search people's phone records would be better served on individuals rather than companies.
Finally, my worry is about future governments, with a certain party leading in the UK polls just now.
This is the part of the DMA that can go MASSIVELY F**K itself and the part that I 100% root for Apple. This isn't about monopolies. It's about the UK wanting a survelience state. Screw them. Apple better hold the line on this.
Man, it'd be great if Apple gave the option to store our data elsewhere, right? Build out a secure cloud provider API so you can plug whatever provider into the back of the phone and store your data in Timbuktu if you were so inclined.
Nah Apple doesn't care about privacy that much. Making that iCloud money is more important.
Or on our own NAS even.
If Apple was really about privacy, they'd enable and support that and perhaps even revive the Time Capsules as a first party NAS solution!
Dare to dream, right!?
And that's a nice way of putting it. It will be very interesting and probably scary.
Yeah, right wing propaganda clearly worked on a lot of people in this thread.
This would be a neat product addition for Apple's lineup IMO. iCloud at Home - a NAS that's seamlessly integrated with all your Apple devices and still offers SMB for any plebians in your home or workplace. Great for Pro users that want fast, local, secure centralized storage or video or other creative projects.
Authoritarianism is the inevitable end result of late stage capitalism.
Democracy, equality and even the sustainability of the planet are the casualty of this and it boggles my mind why so many people seem to want exactly this.
Democracy, equality and even the sustainability of the planet are the casualty of this and it boggles my mind why so many people seem to want exactly this.
Communism and authoritarianism are not linked.
You have have either Libertarian Communism and Authoritarian Communism, same with Libertarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Capitalism.
It's pretty amazing they aren't in this space (and routers!) given how expensive the solutions often are.
There is a huge swath of long term traditional Apple users that would be ALL IN on Apple offerings in these spaces, and yet they offer absolutely nothing.
When someone says "if you’re not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about", reply with a simple test like: "Fine. Give me your unlocked phone and I’ll review your photos, deleted items, browser history, documents, messages and emails. Now If you decline, does that mean you’re concealing wrongdoing, or that you actually accept a right to personal privacy?"
Man that argument annoys the **** out of me.
I've been wanting this for a long time. Apple obviously knows how to create a backup image of my phone and send it over the network to iCloud, but extending me the courtesy of easily and conveniently sending that image to my own private NAS is apparently a bridge too far. Not sure why. Yeah, I know, I can use iTunes to make a backup and then put it on the NAS. I would back up way more often if it was as convenient as iCloud backup.
Sometimes all it takes is a single person willing to make a stand that kicks off a revolution, like the guy at Tiananmen square who stood in front of a column of tanks and refused to move.
We're slowly reaching boiling point and someone is going to make a stand that unites the masses. Who, when, and where are still a mystery, but that day is coming.
I was paraphrasing here's what the BBC reported
In July last year, prompted by a false rumour that an illegal immigrant was responsible for the murder of three girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Connolly posted online calling for "mass deportation now", adding "set fire to all the... hotels [housing asylum seekers]... for all I care".
So yes it's incitement which is illegal, and she was punished, justly. It's the far right that are twisting what she said to make it seem it wasn't bad.
It's because they make more money from you backing up to their servers, as opposed to a drive you yourself own.
From a "kick off revolution" POV sadly Tiananmen actually did the opposite :/
It was a powerful set of protests, and the guy in front of the tank a powerful moment, but, unlike a lot of similar moments, didnt really help long term (which isnt to say people shouldnt try, a lot of the time these things are a powerful catalyst for change, just not sure this is the best example)
Oh man, Time Capsule, I've still got my 5th gen version in a drawer. Such a great product.
Imagine iCloud being able to store documents, photos and everything on an encrypted local Time Capsule for all family users.
My barber still carries a flip phone and is cash only. I kind of envy his lifestyle. 🤷♂️
And what is right or wrong in many cases is malleable, or selectable, enforceable or ignorable and the definition definitively drifts over time toward whomever holds power and away from those lacking a protective or organized constituency.
I’m sure your barber is legit. But…
Flips and cash in and out are popular with Main Street mobsters.
Facilitates skimming the top line, and cheating on taxes.
This isn’t an Apple thing. It’s a UK government thing. And it’s just the start of a surveillance state. You don t think android and other operating systems are going to remain untouched?
Cash is still popular in some areas. My wife, for example, is a criminal defense attorney and about 1/2 of her clients pay in cash, which isn't unusual in law. Clients are often unbanked, or have bad credit and can't get an account, or borrowed the money, etc.
We have a fairly large Amish and Mennonite population here too, and they only use cash.
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