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Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da... by beervirus on Monday August 10, 2020 @11:43AM (#24110482)
Apple's in control of the operating system. If you don't trust them, why would you think that disabling access to the camera app would do any good?
Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da... by shadowgovt on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:13PM (#24110813)
This is the absolutist security perspective, where one assumes an "evil demon" threat model (i.e. every exploit will be exploited to the maximum). It's a useful theoretical model for hardening systems against known and unknown intrusion, but it doesn't realistically model the expected outcome in a world with laws and social constraints.

In practice, it's quite reasonable for a consumer to assume that the company providing them services isn't actively out to get them. In fact, we encode that assumption in law in a couple key places (to wit: if Apple is turning the camera on randomly against explicit user desire, they could be sued for invasion of privacy in the same vein as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School...)