Apple gives you the option to turn telemetry on/off as part of the machine setup & OS upgrade process. This option is explained in simple english and not buried in the legalese.
Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours
by ChuckNorris89 on Friday November 13, 2020 @09:34AM
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The question is, is the telemetry really off completely on mac or either?
Is there any guarantee that Apple gets zero bytes of your data or do we just take their word for it because their products are shiny and cool?
Those questions apply to literally every computer.
Re:Your Computer Isn't Yours
by yencabulator on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:38PM
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No hacker would trust Apple, or an independent audit, to make such a claim anyway.
Then how do they know what to fix/improve without that? I can't imagine average iOS/OSX users, who aren't devs, are writing and submitting detailed bug/crash reports on a regular basis.
Or is it just bias and personal preference where "I don't mind Apple collecting my telemetry because I like Apple but Microsoft collecting my telemetry is evil because I hate Microsoft"?
I don't have a dog in this fight but don't trust any for-profit company when it comes to privacy, no matter how good their PR is on the matter, especially since both of them(and most SV companies) were part of the NSA Prism bulk collection program[0].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)