Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by amelius on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:08AM
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Can we start a class action suit?
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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by infwhispers on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:11AM
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The output stays local on your disk (in theory). So I’m not sure that breaks any rule. But in theory, Apple Intelligence can query it. Again, close to 0 documentation, so it is hard to know how this is consumed.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by fschuett on Saturday November 07, 2026 @07:53AM
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In Germany, it breaks TDDDG §25 verbatim, storage of data not explicitly consented to and not technically necessary is already illegal.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by otterley on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:48AM
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So sue them. You will then learn whether you are right or not.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by nephihaha on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:32PM
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If you have the time and money.
In the meantime the German government probably uses that info.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by jdiff on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:12AM
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Conspiracy talk. Show any indication that this data ever leaves its store first.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas...
by rpdillon on Saturday November 07, 2026 @09:58AM
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I'm from the US, but I did do some research after I saw other commenters claiming it violates GDPR. I tend to agree with them after reading up a bit on it and asking a couple of AIs. Apple can avoid some of the cross-border entanglements, but GDPR does not care where the processing happens, just what the scope of it is, what its purpose is, whose information is being used.
It'll be interesting to see if anybody goes after Apple for this.