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Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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I wouldn't assume anything "deleted" is ever truly deleted. Just a deleted_at property set and maybe the data eventually purged after many years.

When I click "Permanently delete" in the Apple photos app, doing anything other than permanently deleting it is nothing short of a lie

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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Discussion on Reddit before it was removed by r/ios mods: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cryayx/latest_ios_upd...

Why did the mods remove it? I hate that they have such insane censorship powers on Reddit, especially when many of the top subreddits are controlled by a small group of them.

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

There is a reasonable chance that it's a bug happening locally. It would still be really bad, but that would rule out gov. intervention theories, iCloud keeping everything even when the user deletes it, and would also rule out wide spread sharing of these photos.

If it's limited to local resurrection of the deleted photos, I'd see it as way smaller than what we had with CA.

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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Wow 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…

Em. The patch notes say that:

> This update provides important bug fixes and addresses a rare issue where photos that experienced database corruption could reappear in the Photos library even if they were deleted.

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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That seems like a massive invasion of privacy which I believe is illegal for them to do.

Can you explain your reasoning?

If the deleted file was not shared with anyone else, how is this a “massive invasion of privacy”

What law is being broken?

This is a bad bug for sure but there have been far worse bugs that have actually leaked PII and endangered peoples lives. What am I missing?

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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That seems like a massive invasion of privacy which I believe is illegal for them to do.

Can you explain your reasoning? If the deleted file was not shared with anyone else, how is this a “massive invasion of privacy” What law is being broken? This is a bad bug for sure but there have been far worse bugs that have actually leaked PII and endangered peoples lives. What am I missing?

There are reports they reappeared on sold phones as well

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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Discussion on Reddit before it was removed by r/ios mods: https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1cryayx/latest_ios_upd...

Why did the mods remove it? I hate that they have such insane censorship powers on Reddit, especially when many of the top subreddits are controlled by a small group of them.

Reddit is a joke now. It’s all either bots or mod-curated narratives.

Re: Apple's photo bug exposes the myth of 'deleted'

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post #4

I wouldn't assume anything "deleted" is ever truly deleted. Just a deleted_at property set and maybe the data eventually purged after many years.

When I click "Permanently delete" in the Apple photos app, doing anything other than permanently deleting it is nothing short of a lie

You’re in for a rude awakening then with most file systems then. Delete just means “unlink the pointer to it in the file system” for the vast majority of file systems. It might get deleted when it gets overwritten… sometime in the future maybe. I assume this is exactly what happened here.
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