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    Comment #32606346

    CNBC is reporting this is false: https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1563136384059285505

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    Comment #29738838

    Vaccines.gov seems to be kept up to date for people in the US.

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    Comment #28230017

    Currently, most likely. I don’t believe Apple has said whether or not they send them in their initial referral to NCMEC, but law enforcement could easily get a warrant for them. iC…

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    Comment #28229806

    Apple has outlined[1] multiple levels of protection in place for this: 1. You have to reach a threshold of matches before your account is flagged. 2. Once the threshold is reached,…

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    Comment #28229504

    Apple has said this is not the final version of the hashing algorithm they will be using: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx5yzq/apple-defends-its-ant...

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    Comment #28110923

    You are correct — most of the iCloud data is not end-to-end encrypted. Apple discusses which data is end-to-end encrypted at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

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    Comment #28079663

    > As far as this is concerned, seems like if you don’t use iMessage or iCloud you’re safe for now. Yes, this is correct. The Messages feature only applies to children under 18 who …

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    Comment #28078872

    Sorry for the confusion — I was referring to just the CSAM hash feature that uploads results to iCloud. There is also scanning for nudity in the Messages app, but those scans happe…

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    Comment #28078476

    A summary of the photo scanning system: - Only applies to photos uploaded to iCloud - Matching against a known set of CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) hashes occurs on-device (as…

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    Comment #27828535

    The page you linked to is for the Primetime Emmys, which are the biggest awards that make it into the main TV broadcast (Prime Video has 4 nominations there). But there are also th…

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    Comment #27439136

    Title should have a (2020)

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    Comment #26972487

    There are some features for group messaging on iMessage that aren’t available in Group MMS. If you add a non-iMessage user to your group, the group downgrades to using Group MMS, w…

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    Comment #26884344

    I think the really interesting question here is why does an iPad Pro have 16 GB of RAM at all? The previous generation of iPad Pros maxed out at 6 GB, so this is quite a jump. Addi…

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    Comment #26765782

    Not sure what your use case is, but Firefox’s containers might solve your problem with the older profile system: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

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    Comment #26560757

    I’d expect to see Qualcomm in the mix as well, at least for laptop chips.

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    Comment #26504204

    I think it might clear things up if you said that the data is not stored on any Obsidian servers, because the data is stored on iCloud servers.

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    Comment #26484730

    Apple’s in-app purchase/subscription rules only apply to digital goods — not things like banks, Uber, food delivery, etc.