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Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance. (www.forbes.com)

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At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.

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[–] pacology 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Privacy =!= Protection from legal action

If you use your iPhone to conduct illicit business, the police can subpoena Apple and it will hand over your data (at least in the US).

Privacy in this context means preventing other apps from selling your data to brokers (e.g., location data) or using your phone information to do other stuff (e.g., AI training).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I believe you meant !=

[–] pacology 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, thank you. It looks like the backslash just escapes the character??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I guess it depends on the client and likely instance. Over here on Startrek.website and using the Voyager client I was able to just put != with no escapes required.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Apple also has partnerships with Google, Meta, and others. Your data is being sold on that platform. It is just more formal and profitable for Apple.