Re:Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims ...
by GuB-42 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:19PM
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Google is open about the fact they scan and track everything, they even make it a point of convenience "hey, we looked at your email and found a plane ticket, based on where you are, you should leave in 2 hours if you want to be at the airport on time".
Facebook, even more so, they are explicitly anti-privacy to the point of being insulting.
Microsoft will happily show you everything they may send when you install Windows, you can sometimes refuse, but not always. They are a bit less explicit than Google, but privacy is rarely on the menu.
As for Amazon, their cloud offers are mostly for businesses, different market, but still, for consumers, they don't really insist on privacy either.
So that if any of these company scan your pictures for child porn, it won't shock anyone, because we know it is what they do.
But Apple claims privacy as a core value, half of their ads are along the lines of "we are not like the others, we respect your privacy, everything on your device stays on your device, etc...", they announce every (often legitimate) privacy feature with great fanfare, etc... So much that people start to believe it. But with that, people realize that Apple is not so different from the others after all, and if they bought an overpriced device based on that promise, I understand why they are pissed off.
Facebook, even more so, they are explicitly anti-privacy to the point of being insulting.
Microsoft will happily show you everything they may send when you install Windows, you can sometimes refuse, but not always. They are a bit less explicit than Google, but privacy is rarely on the menu.
As for Amazon, their cloud offers are mostly for businesses, different market, but still, for consumers, they don't really insist on privacy either.
So that if any of these company scan your pictures for child porn, it won't shock anyone, because we know it is what they do.
But Apple claims privacy as a core value, half of their ads are along the lines of "we are not like the others, we respect your privacy, everything on your device stays on your device, etc...", they announce every (often legitimate) privacy feature with great fanfare, etc... So much that people start to believe it. But with that, people realize that Apple is not so different from the others after all, and if they bought an overpriced device based on that promise, I understand why they are pissed off.