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Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by zenocon on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:33PM (#50407310)
this is completely wild. i use a mac for my personal computer, but also a mac for work. i ran this on my personal and noticed it was picking up slack chans i participate in often for work. i don't use slack on my personal computer. it has combined both knowledge graphs between the two computers (obviously through the apple platform) once it figured out i am the same person on both laptops. i share very little between the two laptops other than occasionally forwarding an email from a work computer to personal and vice-versa and having the same first/last name on both.

i think this is even more concerning now that i know it is building this graph in a distributed manner across multiple devices.

fyi: slack shows up as com.tinyspeck.chatlyio - it is the internal bundle identifier (Bundle ID) for the official Slack iOS app on Apple devices.

for those that complain about punctuation -- i skip it b/c i have numbness in the left hand due to an injury.

Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by ethansinjin on Saturday November 07, 2026 @03:40PM (#50407836)
Are you signed into the same iCloud account on both laptops? If not I don’t see how they could reliably combine the graphs
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by justinclift on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:13PM (#50410117)
This data probably isn't backed up to iCloud. But if it were, that'd make for an interesting (Facebook-esque?) intelligence resource at scale.
Re:Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member clas... by Zenbit_UX on Saturday November 07, 2026 @10:36PM (#50410215)
You probably have slack signed in on your iPhone and that iPhone shares a personal account with your Mac. Most of the data they have on me seems to be meta data from push notifications that exist on my phone.