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  • mosiacmangoEnglish
    163·
    11 months ago

    Apple has been pushing digital privacy as a selling point for a while, and actually living up to it a bit.

    • yolo@r.nfEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      pushing digital privacy as a selling point and living up to it doesn’t add up when you do compromise privacy behind closed doors

      • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago
        1. Apple and Google are both guilty of this. Frankly, however, neither of them are particularly “guilty”, as
        2. Both Apple and Google were legally obligated not do disclose this practice until recently. It was revealed by Apple as soon as this embargo was lifted.

        I’m not sure what more they could have done in that situation. Did you expect them to break the (very fucked up) law just to alert the public? Can Signal no longer claim to be privacy-focused if the government forces them to log a suspect’s password?

        • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          That is even worse, they knew they were compromising privacy and still boasts about being privacy centric. It’s like Saudi Arabia claiming to be a utopia while actively using modern slavery in the background.

          Apple and Google are both guilty of this. Frankly, however, neither of them are particularly “guilty”,

          Google doesn’t claim to be a herald of digital privacy, nor its users claim Google is a saint.

          • yolo@r.nfEnglish
            31·
            11 months ago

            Apple users every time any criticism comes up

            Other companies do it too…

            Ya no shit, we know other companies are bad, however, keeping Apple at the pedestal no matter what is annoyingly cringe.

            • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              11 months ago

              The only argument I’ve ever heard is that Apple has comparatively better privacy practices than most companies we interact with. I frankly don’t think that argument is particularly unreasonable.

          • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Google doesn’t claim to be a herald of digital privacy, nor its users claim Google is a saint.

            I never did, nor would, claim either of things about Apple.

      • mosiacmangoEnglish
        21·
        11 months ago

        Yall need to read the “a bit” part of that sentence too.

    • misanthropyEnglish
      33·
      11 months ago

      No, apple pushes “privacy” from companies that are not apple. They collect just as much data as the googs.

    • random65837@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      11 months ago

      Well, no, not really. They’re more private than Google, but have also never had issues in the past with geofence dragonets, and only because of public backlash stopped the idea of digging through people’s gallerys to accuse everybody of being a pedophile. Yes, out of the box Apple (may) be a little better, but their descicions change with the wind, and at least on Android we have control to stop what Google does in most cases vs no options on the Apple side.