I call bullshit. They might say they’re opt-in, I bet they have some way to use the personal data that technically doesn’t violate very specific wording of the rule.
Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoBut it’s opt-in. So only people who choose to.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 days ago
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Rather than betting on conjecture you might do well to search for blog posts of security researchers that test these kinds of claims. Then you could have posted that instead of going on feelings.
Like this.
Lawsuit based on research by mysk not sure in the outcome of this though and whether the the claims that there is a difference between data collection for selling to data brokers vs data collection to improve the user experience. As I developer myself we will collect data to help us understand our software better and with no intention to do anything with it.
Another one appears to be about a flaw in how they anonymise data, specifically local differential privacy.
So it does appear that there are claims about opt-in, but I didn’t see anything concrete in my cursory look and I’m not afraid to post articles attacking my own point.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s my point, I don’t believe blogposts paint the whole picture.
deleted@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I wanted to know the battery cycle for my iPhone 7 in 2019 and the only way was to enable analytics and diagnostics data collection with Apple.