The nauance is Apple won’t store a copy for their own uses. That’s it. Allowing users to be creeps doesn’t violate their privacy posture. It’s not complicated.

I assure you, those meta glasses are storing every piece of tagged data into a database globally accessible to meta engineers. They’ll figure out the profit angle later, if they haven’t already.

Apple’s version will cost more but their profit ends with the device sale. Their engineers don’t get access to global user data, there are plenty of articles on how salty this makes them.

Most people will happily sell their data for a cheaper upfront cost. And engineers flock to companies that allow them to extract data on you because it’s far more fun.

It’s bizarre how difficult it for people to accept the nuance here. You all literally gaslight yourselves into accepting these practices when you literally have a choice.

The refusal of the availabile choices is actually limiting the markets ability to offer even better choices. Stop hitting yourselves and playing victim.

It’s literally no different than how people buy cheap shit and then complain how their only option is cheap shit despite it literally not being true.

Apple is a publically traded company. The only stance it can have is ‘stock price must go up’. Everything else is in service to that and can come or go as required. The incentives do not allow for anything else.

I’ve been careful the last few years to delete all my old PII everywhere online and minimize my engagement with any cloud provider.

Only just recently discovered that every photo anyone in my family has taken of me in the past few years has been auto-tagging me and sending that information to either Google or Apple, tied to my phone number (since it’s picked from their Contacts) and geolocation, and I never consented to any of it.

No single company supports fundamental human rights. Human rights are enforced through government mandates and laws which said companies may choose to follow, or not.

But a company claiming they support fundamental human rights is lying

Quite a while ago all tech companies realized how much more valuable data hoarding and collection is. That’s how.

I thought Bloomberg was trash news these days?

the same company that sold drm mp3s,sold a licence to be able to load programs of your own choosing to your own phone, forced itunes to your computer to use your mp3 player, and a bunch of other more shit?

no. really? I’m acting astonished.

But my brand would never do that! They may be one of the biggest corporations in the world but they definitely care about me as an individual!

No human will spy on a human, but an ai robot/device recording and making DATA sheets about it’s environment is ok.

“Apple’s privacy is a fundamental human right”

Ha! At the same time they were not even able to integrate ChatGPT properly and are still stuck with Siri, which feels like talking to a retarded horse