Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ data’ vs Facebook, Google

Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da... by acdha on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:36AM (#24110409)

Again, how large is the population of people who don't trust Apple's apps not to exfiltrate their data but do trust Apple's OS to enforce restrictions on the apps built-in to the OS?

If, for example, you don't trust Camera with your location data you also need to be concerned about having cellular networking enabled and making sure that Apple's WiFi interface, crash report, software updates, Music/Books/TV, etc. don't share that same data or things like IP addresses which are often effectively the same.

Remember, this is only about code which ships in the OS. If you look at the apps which Apple ships through the app store, they do follow the same controls: my “Apple Store” app only allows location access while I'm using it, I can disable background app refresh, etc.

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Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da... by xbmcuser on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:07PM (#24110747)

Apple has put its servers in china for chinese users so that the chinese government can access the data. Now the data it collects legally they have to give to chinese government if asked. I am not saying they are giving data to chinese government that rather that they are collecting data which can get into the hands of government so they should let the user control what data they are comfortable with sharing.

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Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da... by acdha on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:23PM (#24110953)

Again, what do you believe that a checkbox on the camera app would accomplish? If you’re concerned about protecting Chinese users against their government, think long and hard about whether this would provide anything more than a false sense of security. I even gave you a partial list of other ways the same data can leak.

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