So Apple is asking someone to stop them from invading your privacy?
So Apple is asking someone to stop them from invading your privacy?
**************************************
Well, I’ll let you wallow in your ignorance or your smarminess...whichever most accurately reflects your current state.
Yes.
That’s an accurate interpretation.
Competitors make big money from selling customer info making it hard for Apple to compete if they don’t.
In general though the cheap technical provision of security and privacy is problematic.
Apple does not have access to your data, because they don'e have your passcode. Only you do. The limited data Apple has in anonymized. Microsoft and Google have Gigabytes of personalized data on you.
By law you can get a copy of what each has on you. . . Google/Android will send you hundreds of megabytes of personal files on you. Same with Facebook, and Twitter. Apple's files are less than ten megabytes, and are mostly about your iTunes account, repairs, devices, etc. Here's part of a May 2018 report from a USA Today reporter who took advantage of that law:
The zip file I eventually received from Apple was tiny, only 9 megabytes, compared to 243 MB from Google and 881 MB from Facebook. And there's not much there, because Apple says the information is primarily kept on your device, not its servers. The one sentence highlight: a list of my downloads, purchases and repairs, but not my search histories through the Siri personal assistant or the Safari browser.
As you can see there is a huge difference in the amount of data Apple collects from its customers, because that is what they are, Apple's customers, while for the others, the users, or their data is the product they sell!