Re:Apple Regrets Confusion over 'iPhone Scanning'
by mthoms on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:22PM
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People don't care about privacy, got it. No one is quitting Facebook, no one is de-Googling their lives, installing privacy extensions/apps and making purchases based on privacy issues.
The worlds largest online companies increasingly making privacy a priority in their marketing are all wrong. Got it.
>Most people I know didn’t abandon WhatsApp despite numerous privacy mishaps
I never said privacy was the top issue, trumping all else. You're absolutely correct that other issues like convenience and network effects are important.
Small example: I run a small app. The number of GDPR-related requests is zero. The number of emails like "can my deleted account and deleted data still be recovered?" is like 1 per month or so.
WhatsApp is also a good counter example. People want privacy, but what they want more is utility and network effects. Most people I know didn’t abandon WhatsApp despite numerous privacy mishaps and I think the same will happen here with Apple. This will blow over – unfortunately.