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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by joe_the_user on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:51PM (#42537619)
and there's absolutely nothing wrong with implementing a feature like this, but it should absolutely be opt-in

This feature is intended to spy on the user. Those kinds of features can't be opt-in. (And yeah, holomorophic "privacy preserving" encryption song-and-dance, I read about that when it came out, etc).

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by throw10920 on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:20AM (#42538049)
This is an incredibly shallow dismissal that states the opposite of Apple's claim with zero evidence or reasoning and hand-waves away the very real and well-researched field of homomorphic encryption.
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