Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
by tshaddox on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:19PM
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I didn't intend to criticize your description of the situation. My intent was to criticize the people who (allegedly) had that goal, because it has become clear that the result of the policy was not to cause user frustration and have that lead to companies improving their privacy practices. Instead, the result of the policy was simply to increase user frustration without improving privacy practies.
Obviously the intention is not "to not improve user privacy at all" but to give companies and users the agency to make their own choices. Many companies seems to chose "user inconvenience" over "user privacy", and it now makes it clear what companies made that choice. This is the intention of the directive.