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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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