Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage [video]

Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by tjpnz on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:36PM (#38051161)

I don't want any of my data scanned which is why I don't tend to store it in the cloud. If Apple rolled out client side scanning what's to prevent them from extending it to all data on the device, regardless of whether it's synced to iCloud?

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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by fh9302 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @12:46PM (#38051262)

Apple has made it clear that they won't move forward with client side scanning after feedback from researchers and customers. Instead, they added optional E2EE for iCloud. It's not perfect yet but significantly better than most other cloud providers.

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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by alwayslikethis on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:05PM (#38051482)

Just proposing the idea is enough to dissuade them from using their products for anything personal. More importantly though, unlike Android it's much harder to use Apple without using cloud, and the cloud is just someone else's computer. Not your computer, not your data. There is also no freedom on iOS to install things you want without permission from Apple.

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Re:Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hos... by brookst on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:36PM (#38055108)

Google does cloud side scanning and owns Android. What’s to stop them from scanning your local files?

Hint: nothing technical

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