What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy

Re:What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy by nmrm2 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:35AM (#9699941)

> And of course Apple collects information on you to help improve its products - nearly every company in existence does this.

The article claims that Apple's privacy policy explicitly says that it can use that information for marketing/advertising. From the article:

the company plainly states in its privacy policy that it does use private data in many ways, including... to build its own advertising network.

That's actually pretty evil. Normally if I turn on "tell X about any runtime errors", I expect there to be pretty strong privacy protections in place. After all, I'm doing them a pretty big favour by donating (an admittedly tiny amount of) bandwidth and compute resources to their product improvement. The absolute least I expect is to not be shafted in return.

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Re:What Apple’s Tim Cook Overlooked in His Defense of Privacy by pflats on Thursday June 11, 2015 @10:46AM (#9700003)

Honestly, that sounds more like CYA than anything else. If they use crash reports to say that OS 10.12 crashes at 1/5 the rate of 10.11, then they're using your data for marketing/advertising.

I'm willing to hold my scorn until they start saying "nmrm2's Mac has never crashed!" without clearing it or compensating you.

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