syboxez t1_j8yh2x5 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 9:17 PM

Reply to comment by chemicalsam in Apple Pushing to Launch Search Engine to Rival Google by DragonWarrior566

Big Tech is a privacy nightmare, Apple included.

Killerdude8 t1_j8yk2r4 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 9:37 PM

Apple is actually one of the few big tech companies that handles user privacy and security very well…

syboxez t1_j8ylr4k wrote on February 17, 2023 at 9:49 PM

For third party apps? Sure. For their own products? Nope.

Ever wonder how Apple Maps knows where you live even though you never inputted that information?

Also how only in December of last year did Apple announce they were adding end to end encryption to iCloud, and this is after the whole CSAM scanning scandal. Will anyone be able to verify that the encryption is actually end to end and secure? No, since the client software is not open source, and therefore, cannot be publicly audited.

Apple is great at marketing, though, so they advertise that they respect privacy.

Killerdude8 t1_j8ylxzt wrote on February 17, 2023 at 9:50 PM

Because it uses locations services that you can disable?

Thats not the gotcha you think it is.

Loot t1_j8yuxad wrote on February 17, 2023 at 10:54 PM

You realize. that’s public information.

Spare_Change_Agent t1_j8yyd25 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 11:19 PM

The challenge with making it encrypted was data loss/recovery — customer often lose data (by deleting it) and expect apple to recover it.

joejoe347 t1_j902qtn wrote on February 18, 2023 at 4:55 AM

They literally don't even have end to end encryption when you message anything other than an iphone.