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You're addressing the technical problem but Tim Cook is addressing the political problem, which is more effective at tackling the root causes.
Dubious proposition. Many programmers work to solve political problems through technological means. TOR is an example of this.
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> Prove that localized models built on small datasets work. > Invest in cryptography and user anonymity technologies. That’s what they literally do. Much of iOS’s “proactive” features are done on-device, as is things like photos analysis. And most of Apple’s products utilize at least some sort of cryptography and anonymized logging.
Clearly they're not doing enough, if they were, Siri wouldn't have fallen so far behind. I know it's a new and difficult field (I work in it) but it's also one where you could throw buckets of cash at the problem and get better results.
They've effectively hamstrung themselves by anonymising the data and not cross-correlating between users as much as Google does.
Google on the other hand has no qualms about using the mountains of data they collect on every single user on their platforms. They can teach Google Assistant stuff that Siri can't even try to do yet.
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iOS has long had an API for allowing access to individual photos from the system photo picker. Unfortunately many apps eschew this because they prefer having access to all of the user’s photos.
That shouldn't matter. The OS should let you create a fake photo collection which gets shown instead of the real one to apps you don't trust. This idea is obvious and very old. At least in the case of Android contact lists people have been asking for this for as long as I can remember. Why has it still not been implemented on iOS at least? Or has it now been implemented? I've been avoiding both Android and iOS becaus…
Many times yes. And even more important, the contacts!
Now it's you have to "give the app all the contacts" even if you know you want to give it only one or two. And of those one or two, just the number. Not the picture, not the date of birth, not the address.
In short we should be able to pre-select what any app actually sees of of all the databases, records and fields.
It sounds too technical but it could be done properly.
It's sad how the introduction of a new class of devices "smartphones" brought along with it a surveillance software platform in the form of Android. Where it is clear that the only incentive for google to develop it is exfiltration of as much personal data as they can. In contrast in the case of Apple you have a customer relationship with the company that sold you the device and they have an incentive to keep you as…
I would kill for a Linux phone, but until that happens I would settle for a phone that comes with root access (or at least allows technically capable users to get it) and let's me control my own data and device from the bare metal up. Because even if Apple has less incentive to exfiltrate data, I don't want to have to trust any company to do the right thing or to keep doing it.
It wasn't too bad, though the swipey interface made it a little to easily to accidentally call people when drunk.
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Edit: OP changed his comment, so my response is looking off-topic now Sure, please paste here your email and other accounts logins. Maybe you say you can't trust some random stranger on the internet but why would your trust companies, they have no morals, they want only to make money for themselves and on top of that they are incompetent and they can lose your data and random people on the internet will have it.
> Sure, please paste here your email and other accounts logins. That is not privacy, it's security. Are you implying that Facebook and Google don't take security seriously?
And Google supposedly shut down their Google+ service over a potential security bug that could have exposed a few hundred thousand accounts, but of course there were more reasons than that.
It's sad how the introduction of a new class of devices "smartphones" brought along with it a surveillance software platform in the form of Android. Where it is clear that the only incentive for google to develop it is exfiltration of as much personal data as they can. In contrast in the case of Apple you have a customer relationship with the company that sold you the device and they have an incentive to keep you as…
I'd like some competition that's actually with Apple (that is others who respect privacy, not Google, Microsoft et al) as I am increasingly disappointed in Apple hardware.
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Before you consider Apple as your next device provider, remember that they right now are completely shutting down third party repairs of their devices. Also Apple's own "repair method" is to tell you that it's broken, without so much as opening the case and just replacing any component that seems to act up, costing you up to the device's original price in repair fees.
Sure, but also keep in mind that Apple has literally no way of knowing what a third-party repair shop might do. Apple does not want to end up on the hook if a third party shop uses a fake exploding battery, the wrong adhesive (causing e.g. antenna issues, excess heat, or flaky phone), a fraudulent or fake part, etc. If that phone blows up/dies/erases everything afterwards, an irate customer or the media might well pi…
If Apple started doing "Certified Repairs" and actually repair or fix the issue instead of swapping parts every time (there are a lot of problems that can be fixed by cleaning out gunk, swapping a wire etc.), I'd be completely okay with going to an Apple store (or certified partner) to do the repair.
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Also you can't just forget the point, that you will not find the same results on DuckDuckGo and Bing and others that you find on Google. That is my #1 problem with switching to another search engine. It doesn't show me the results that I need, especially for technical questions. Google does.
If it is a while since you last tried the switch, startpage is worth a go. I recently built a new laptop and set it as the default, after several failed attempts in the past. I now rarely find myself struggling with tech related searches as I had done previously. Consequently, it has stuck this time. YMMV obvs.
I think that it's ironic that Techcrunch make it so hard to read the article without agreeing to surveillance when they could just look at the Do Not Track headers.