Comment on WSJ: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoApple and privacy can’t be in the same sentence. It does not make sense.
This is just retaliation to the Huawei ban, and to America’s efforts to hurt China’s chip industry.
WiseMoth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
While Apple may not be perfect when it comes to privacy, they are objectively better for privacy than just about every other manufacturer as it’s profitable to their business model
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Based on what? Apple sells a closed source device. Neither you nor me know how much data they retain or share with the government.
WiseMoth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know what their privacy policy states and that they can’t (legally) lie in it (to my knowledge). I also know that they are not an advertising company primarily and that the competition is. That gives other companies far more reason to collect data. Apple on the other hand benefits from being more privacy focused as a selling point. Overall, Apple is far more trustworthy imo when it comes to privacy than others
whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Those privacy policies aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
It takes just one FISA letter to compromise Apple. In fact, there is legislation like the Cloud Act that forces US tech companies to betray our trust.
Asudox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t know if they really do what they say they do. This also doesn’t go for stock android with GMS. The best privacy OS is AOSP. I also don’t know how Apple is more trustworthy, they don’t open source anything and you can’t sideload apps unless you go through some jailbreaking process which has its own risks. Android at least does allow you to sideload apks.