banjo on Nostr: Really? Let's review: a) Apple receives and stores your contacts - and within those ...
Really? Let's review:
a) Apple receives and stores your contacts - and within those contacts are way more than phone numbers. (Think birthdays, addresses, kids names, etc.) and you are exposing all of that personal information of your friends to Apple without their consent. Also, your photos are subject to facial recognition, and that means your friends' faces too--and that's linked to GPS EXIF data, so now Apple knows where your friends have been, and when.
b) Client Side Scanning lets Apple look at all of your photos for illegal content BEFORE that data is encrypted. It was implemented to help combat child porn, but of course your data can be scanned for anything that Apple might choose.
c) Apple devices establish a "mesh" network with all other Apple devices--this is how "Find my Phone" and Apple Air Tags work. Every phone and every tag is constantly monitored for location (not only by your phone but by every other iPhone on the street), and that data is sent back to Apple constantly (i.e., when you lose your phone Apple doesn't scan for it, it simply "looks up" the last known location in its database and sends it back to you).
Again, I'm not expecting you to change your behavior (although I might hope you woud consider it)--just putting this out there to increase awareness of what Apple is really doing....but please recognize these statements and Apple activities are 100% factual.
a) Apple receives and stores your contacts - and within those contacts are way more than phone numbers. (Think birthdays, addresses, kids names, etc.) and you are exposing all of that personal information of your friends to Apple without their consent. Also, your photos are subject to facial recognition, and that means your friends' faces too--and that's linked to GPS EXIF data, so now Apple knows where your friends have been, and when.
b) Client Side Scanning lets Apple look at all of your photos for illegal content BEFORE that data is encrypted. It was implemented to help combat child porn, but of course your data can be scanned for anything that Apple might choose.
c) Apple devices establish a "mesh" network with all other Apple devices--this is how "Find my Phone" and Apple Air Tags work. Every phone and every tag is constantly monitored for location (not only by your phone but by every other iPhone on the street), and that data is sent back to Apple constantly (i.e., when you lose your phone Apple doesn't scan for it, it simply "looks up" the last known location in its database and sends it back to you).
Again, I'm not expecting you to change your behavior (although I might hope you woud consider it)--just putting this out there to increase awareness of what Apple is really doing....but please recognize these statements and Apple activities are 100% factual.