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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by s3p on Sunday December 29, 2024 @01:02AM (#42537963)
If you really didn't want your photos to be analyzed, would you be using an iPhone? Or any modern smartphone? Google photos doesn't have nearly the privacy focus and no HE whatsoever but I rarely see that mentioned here. It almost seems like Apple gets held to a higher standard just because they have privacy preserving initiatives. Do you use a keyboard on your iphone? You may not have heard but apple is tracking which emojis you type most often [0] and they get sent to apple servers.

[0] https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Differential_Privacy_Over...

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by dwaite on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:50AM (#42538395)
> It almost seems like Apple gets held to a higher standard just because they have privacy preserving initiatives

It doesnt' seem this way at all. It is rare to see someone talking about current behavior, they are always talking about the slippery slope - such as landmark detection obviously being the first step in detecting propaganda on a political dissident's phone.

This isn't driven by trying to hold them to a higher standard; it is an emotional desire of wanting to see them caught in a lie.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by WA on Sunday December 29, 2024 @02:14AM (#42538278)
> Google photos doesn't have nearly the privacy focus and no HE whatsoever but I rarely see that mentioned here. It almost seems like Apple gets held to a higher standard just because they have privacy preserving initiatives.

What is so surprising about this? If you make big claims about anything, you are held to your own standards.

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by ctxc on Sunday December 29, 2024 @05:40AM (#42539119)
Like parent mentioned - I don't upload photos to Google photos, assume parent doesn't upload photos to iCloud.

Should photo info be sent to Apple/Google in this case?

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