Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature

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The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

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halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity at all.

Sign in with Apple allows you to use Hide My Email to keep your personal email private when you use Sign in with Apple to create a new account with an app or website.

Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal email inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses and your personal email address is kept private.

That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.

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lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it. Even though this was likely special treatment because they messaged the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.

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