Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by teakettle42 on Friday October 15, 2021 @01:48PM
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Note that The Verge’s reporting is almost certainly sourced from the fired individual. Verge is not a reputable outlet.
Apple probably didn’t care about Pokémon Go or Robinhood, and their inclusion in the reported list was probably an attempt to elicit exactly the type of misguided sympathetic reactions we’re now seeing here.
Re:Apple just fired a leader of the AppleToo movement
by Dracophoenix on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:36PM
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Pokémon GO functions as a self-recording GPS and Robinhood's financial records could produce circumstantial evidence of embezzlement, corporate espionage, and/or insider trading. A geocaching game and an entry-level trading app may seem insignificant ,but the data (and metadata!) collected by just one of them is digital gold to Apple's forensics team.
What baffles me is the Pokémon GO and Robinhood. What, they wanted to see her movement data as well as her share in Bitcoin? That's just dumb. And unless they needed her physical locations and movements at certain times and dates (for which they would need a specific order), they could have simply gone in the location data in the freaking settings!