Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
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Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#2Wow this is a huge breach of trust for a company that claims it has strong privacy protections.
Also from a different article (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161152/apple-ios-17-pho...):
> Another post claimed that old photos appeared on an iPad that was sold to another person.
It is SO weird for Apple to fix the bug in a patch but say nothing about the fact that photos deleted years earlier reappeared for a time. They absolutely must come clean here.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#3That seems like a massive invasion of privacy which I believe is illegal for them to do.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#4I wouldn't assume anything "deleted" is ever truly deleted. Just a deleted_at property set and maybe the data eventually purged after many years.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#5So, it seems like this is legit now? Last I checked it was in the "probably legit but unconfirmed" realm.
Apple needs to explain exactly what happened and how they plan to prevent it exactly now. They should be fined for storing photos after someone permanently deletes them. They should be forced to allow transparent access to the file system like on Android. This should be all over national TV.
This is bad. Really really bad.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#6So, it seems like this is legit now? Last I checked it was in the "probably legit but unconfirmed" realm. Apple needs to explain exactly what happened and how they plan to prevent it exactly now . They should be fined for storing photos after someone permanently deletes them. They should be forced to allow transparent access to the file system like on Android. This should be all over national TV. This is bad . Really…
It is definitely legit because Apple issued a fix (https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160983/apple-iphone-ipa...). So they’ve acknowledged the behavior but not explained why it happened or confirmed that deleted now really means deleted.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#7Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40370078
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#8So, it seems like this is legit now? Last I checked it was in the "probably legit but unconfirmed" realm. Apple needs to explain exactly what happened and how they plan to prevent it exactly now . They should be fined for storing photos after someone permanently deletes them. They should be forced to allow transparent access to the file system like on Android. This should be all over national TV. This is bad . Really…
It is definitely legit because Apple issued a fix ( https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160983/apple-iphone-ipa... ). So they’ve acknowledged the behavior but not explained why it happened or confirmed that deleted now really means deleted.
I can't believe news about this is as quiet as it is. This should be on national television, like cambridge analytica (which honestly was probably not nearly as bad as this)
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#9So, it seems like this is legit now? Last I checked it was in the "probably legit but unconfirmed" realm. Apple needs to explain exactly what happened and how they plan to prevent it exactly now . They should be fined for storing photos after someone permanently deletes them. They should be forced to allow transparent access to the file system like on Android. This should be all over national TV. This is bad . Really…
How about the gov comes to you and tells you that you must keep all deleted photos on the device and that you must not tell anyone about this request.
Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'
#10If the photo never leaves the device this seems more like a feature dedicated to law enforcement whether that is for democratic or dictatorship type of governemnt forms. There still is a speck of privacy, the device itself. If LE cannot get hold of it then it’s undiscoverable. However if any photo leaves the device without any cloud settings on we’re talking about a complete lack of privacy.