Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.
Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.
At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.
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Do people actually believe Apple's hogwash about privacy?
After reading the article, it doesn’t look like any of this contradicts what they’re been selling. Encrypted data is still locked down. IMHO, this title is fairly clickbaity.
A lot of this looks like iOS / CarPlay versions of policing / public records database software that was previously on platforms like Windows.
They have a pretty good track record. They are no advertising company and make their money elsewhere.
I don’t assume they are perfect. But I do absolutely believe they are significantly better on privacy than any other major player in the smartphone space.
Even if you don’t pay any attention to their policies and programs, the mere fact that iPhones aren’t running an OS owned by an advertising company should be enough to demonstrate this.
I agree. And if you want some level of convenience and some level of privacy I think Apple is the way to go.
For example I have the skills to use GrapheneOS but I just don't want to deal with it and I want to still be able to use NFC payments. So iOS is the next best thing.
it's easier to just believe in it. these people are weak (regarding privacy). I am not saying privacy is number one priority in life. It is not.