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Apple calls privacy advocates "screeching voices of the minority," claims they will refuse to expand photo scanning at government request (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by altmehere 4 years ago by altmehere +66 / -0
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– altmehere [S] 44 points 4 years ago +44 / -0

So what happens when China tells Apple that they must be allowed access to the technology or Apple will be denied access to the multi-billion dollar Chinese market? Are we to believe that Apple will just leave China?

some people have misunderstandings

Oh but of course. If people disagree with them they must just "misunderstand."

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– SamuelColt 25 points 4 years ago +25 / -0

Tim Cook has destroyed the soul of that company.

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– TerpenoidTester 28 points 4 years ago +28 / -0

Easy when only the creator has principles.

Reddit turned south as soon as the only one with integrity got 'suicided' so now the rest can rake in profits while turning it into a propaganda platform.

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– Assassin47 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

He's no longer worthy of the name Tim Apple.

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– altmehere [S] 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

You put your pictures in iCloud, of course Apple is gonna look at them, or sell them, or do whatever they want with them.

This is what companies like Google openly do. Apple at least claims to encrypt photos uploaded to iCloud and to be unable to do that. This is similar to what mega.nz (says it) does with its uploads.

It's because they (supposedly) cannot inspect things uploaded to iCloud that they want to spy on them like this in the first place on the device before they are encrypted and uploaded to iCloud.

I think the message this should send is that no cloud service should be trusted, and if you really must use one, you should encrypt your files first before uploading them. And I mean everything you're keeping, whether it's a receipt of a donation to Trump or a receipt for a sandwich, should have AES-256 encryption.

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– NotAGlowy 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

They will scan the images before they go onto the cloud. On your phone

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– NotAGlowy 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0

Apple has testified that they always comply with local court and government requests.

It took UK courts 7 years to expand their “child protection” tool to cover “knock off rolexes” and “copyrighted mp3s”

Every company lawyer I know is preparing a lawsuit to get their products covered.

“Build it and they will come”

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– cccpneveragain 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

The government won't request or demand. They will just declare whatever is a "public crisis" and Apple will volunteer to expand photo scanning for them.

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– bootsy_two_scoops 8 points 4 years ago +8 / -0

Yeah, just like FB and Twitter don’t censor at government request.

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– GimmeFuelGimmeFire 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Didn't Psaki say they tell FB which posts to take down?

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– bootsy_two_scoops 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Accidentally, yeah.

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– MargarineMongoose 7 points 4 years ago +7 / -0

Being in the minority does not make someone wrong.

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– Skywise 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

BS - the governments can now, easily, make it law because you’ve proven to them it’s technically feasible. You just claim you’re taking a voluntary stand which has about as much meaning as screwing over developers in your App Store

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– Kienan 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Nothing like doubling down on authoritarianism by throwing in some condescending bitchiness.

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– 1776ReasonsWhy 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

When it's the "screeching voices of the minority," and it's race, gender, or "gender," that's when you listen, but not when it directly concerns privacy, or by extension, civil liberties. That's just crazy extremists.

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– Hiromant 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

As always, projection. I have a feeling the shrieking of the actual minority will get a whole lot louder as resistance mounts.

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– CletustheElitist 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

Yes, I am sure you will find so much CP on all of those apple devices and nothing else. Those crazy, op-secced to the gills, deepweb pedos with their lofty macintosh rigs won't ever see it coming.

This is totally not a soulless attempt to mass harvest advertizing data at the complete compromise of whatever modicum of privacy the userbase had left. What? "Your" device? Our device.

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– GeneralBoobs 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

If you've been using cult of apple shit for this long, you really don't care about privacy or your rights. So, yes, it is the screeching minority.

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The eternal sephardim

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