pushing digital privacy as a selling point and living up to it doesn’t add up when you do compromise privacy behind closed doors
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mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 months agoApple has been pushing privacy as a selling point, and actually living up to it a bit.
yolo@r.nf 10 months ago
QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 months ago
- Apple and Google are both guilty of this. Frankly, however, neither of them are particularly “guilty”, as
- Both Apple and Google were legally obligated not do disclose this practice until recently. It was revealed by Apple as soon as this embargo was lifted.
I’m not sure what more they could have done in that situation. Did you expect them to break the (very fucked up) law just to alert the public? Can Signal no longer claim to be privacy-focused if the government forces them to log a suspect’s password?
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yall need to read the “a bit” part of that sentence too.
misanthropy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
No, apple pushes “privacy” from companies that are not apple. They collect just as much data as the googs.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well that’s an extreme exaggeration.
They do collect data, but a drop in the bucket to what Google collects lol.
random65837@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well, no, not really. They’re more private than Google, but have also never had issues in the past with geofence dragonets, and only because of public backlash stopped the idea of digging through people’s gallerys to accuse everybody of being a pedophile. Yes, out of the box Apple (may) be a little better, but their descicions change with the wind, and at least on Android we have control to stop what Google does in most cases vs no options on the Apple side.