And that’s why those of us with a sense of privacy and data sovereignty have been saying for decades that the cloud is bad.
Another thing we’re been saying for the longest time is that Apple isn’t any better than all the other Big Data sonsabitches: it’s just very good at convincing fanbois that it is more respectful of its customers’ privacy for some reason that totally eludes me.
Well, here’s proof.
The reason why many think Apple is better about privacy is that the others also scan your private uploads and this one is only about public links. So it’s public data to begin with.
They were going to do on-device scanning for your own photos and stuff too like everyone else does, but they actually received backlash and backed out of it
They were going to do on-device scanning for your own photos and stuff too like everyone else does, but they actually received backlash and backed out of it
Oh yeah, I can see how “They would have abused your privacy but for the bad publicity” totally makes Apple so much better than the competition.
They were going to do on-device scanning for your own photos and stuff too like everyone else does, but they actually received backlash and backed out of it
I remember this vividly. It was the last straw for me and prompted me to completely exit the Apple ecosystem, in which I was very deeply entrenched. Replaced my Apple watch with a high end Gshock, replaced my Macbook Pro with a Thinkpad running Linux, pulled over a terabyte of photos and videos from iCloud, and a ton of other effort.
all because Apple decided to announce their plans to build an extrajudicial wiretap into the OS that I ran on my device which I owned. They may have ultimately walked the plan back, but nothing they can do after revealing that wiretap intent can ever hope to rebuild trust. It was such an egregious proposal.
Here’s a thought… encrypt locally, put that in the cloud. Oh no you win.
Stop relying on your favorite tech lord to encrypt your shit Jfc
This is limited to publicly shared the links, not privately shared links between iCloud users
But they do still scan your iCloud Photos and files I believe
Do you have a source for that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud#%3A~%3Atext=Child+sexual+abuse+material
I am wrong, they scan iCloud mail, but backed down on iCloud Photos.
I had thought on device scanning is what they backed down on but they had always scanned photos.
It’s still not clear of uploaded images are scanned.
I appreciate you checking your sources. Thank you for that.
