Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da...
by fragmede on Monday August 10, 2020 @12:43PM
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There isn't a box inside of Apple HQ marked 'location data, do not eat', so Apple isn't actually 100% sure where the location data is. There are numerous safeguards, both in their device and the online platform to try and make sure it never leaks, but no one other than their marketing team would say 100%.
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Re:Apple’s ad network gets ‘preferential access to users’ da...
by wlesieutre on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @02:36PM
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That's true, I shouldn't say 100%. But the location data is in my iCloud Photos box, which I think Apple will at least internally take a hard look at anything that wants to access it.
If the iPhone calculator app team said "We're going to turn this into a social calculator and it's going to use your photo library to automatically identify receipts to calculate tips and splits, and we're going to do the image processing on the server and make a database of where we identified your receipts to help with identifying restaurant payment locations," somebody higher up would tell them "No, we need to do receipt recognition all on-device." That makes it a lot easier to avoid accidental data leakage.