Yet, my wife's Siri can always find the nearest whatever
You can choose to let your phone use your location for requests. Her questions to Siri are not associated with her Apple ID but are instead linked to a separate anonymous Siri ID, which allows a degree of context without creating any records linked to an identifiable person.
and suggest stuff based on my wife's "preferences".
Suggestions for random stuff on your phone (Do you want directions to work? Do you want to listen to this playlist that you listen to every freaking day?) are generated locally on the phone. Apple the company never sees that sort of stuff.
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From what I’ve heard it’s been harder for law enforcement to get into Android phones now.
Also, the whole privacy features only make Apple’s data gathering more valuable because they become the only ones that can access that information. Google caught on and is doing the same thing with their privacy features. Like privacy features are nice, but it’s naive to think that Apple and Google don’t have other ulterior motives with implementing them.
Norgur@kbin.social 10 months ago
Exactly! As if Apple would hesitate even one cycle of their M3 CPUs to establish a monopoly through "data protection" (aka "only we can sell access to your data to others")
registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 10 months ago
Apple being an american company, what’s to stop high level surveilance from demanding backdoor access and printing out a letter of non-disclosure as per current US laws?
It would be negligent of any intel agency with the possibility to not make their own Room 641A at Apple.
kirklennon@kbin.social 10 months ago
The government can't compel them to actually lie, and under their current public disclosures, they do not do such things. At any rate, demands are not unlimited in scope; US law doesn't require them to secretly re-architect the whole service to create a backdoor from scratch. AT&T willingly built 641A.
Xatolos@reddthat.com 10 months ago
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To say they are part of it kind of implies they even had a choice. When Yahoo tried to fight being a part of the program they were going to be fined $250k a day.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Don’t need to just call up Google and get whatever they want. In fact they get whatever they want for thousands of people at a time.
ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only for things that are on Google’s servers. If you have something that’s on-device police will use something like Cellbrite to access it.
The vast majority of stuff Google has on their servers isn’t really all that useful to law enforcement anyway and Google requires a search warrant before handing it over. And they generally notify the user when it happens (when legally allowed to do so). Most useful would probably be location data, but law enforcement can also get similar information from cell phone companies (who are much more carefree about handing over subscriber data).
Google and Apple are both actually kind of a pain to deal with for warrant related stuff. In my line of work, I most often see subpoenas for cell phone and social media records as those are much easier to get.
People often act like Google is just handing out user user data to the highest bidder, but that really misunderstands their profit model. They are very protective of user data. Google does not like to give it out so that only they can be the ones to profit off of the data.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Everything is on Google’s servers.
no it’s actually much worse than that