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Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by gigel82 »

> From my own perspective, computing privacy is simple: if something happens entirely on my computer, then it's private, whereas if my computer sends data to the manufacturer of the computer, then it's not private, or at least not entirely private. Thus, the only way to guarantee computing privacy is to not send data off the device.

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Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by hu3 »

So it sends your photos to be indexed on Apple servers. Turned on by default.

This is probably done to compete with Google Photos which has a great photo search by word feature.

With that said, Apple can use whatever privacy measures to protect user data. But at the end of the day, a subpoena can easily force them to hand over data.

The best privacy measure is to just not have the data. I guess indexing photos offline in phone is not very feasible yet.

Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by walterbell »

Was this not announced during the iOS18 'Glowtime' event? Gosh. Thanks for the neon! https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/everything-announced-at-app...

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2023/client-si...

  The Internet Society makes the following recommendations based on the European Commission’s proposal:

    That the European Committee introduce safeguards for end-to-end encryption.
    That the European Committee prohibits the use of scanning technologies for general monitoring, including client-side scanning

Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by thought_alarm »

hu3 wrote: post #6

So it sends your photos to be indexed on Apple servers. Turned on by default. This is probably done to compete with Google Photos which has a great photo search by word feature. With that said, Apple can use whatever privacy measures to protect user data. But at the end of the day, a subpoena can easily force them to hand over data. The best privacy measure is to just not have the data. I guess indexing photos offlin…

It does not send your photos to be indexed on Apple servers.

Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by bogantech »

walterbell wrote: post #7

Was this not announced during the iOS18 'Glowtime' event? Gosh. Thanks for the neon! https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/everything-announced-at-app... https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2023/client-si... The Internet Society makes the following recommendations based on the European Commission’s proposal: That the European Committee introduce safeguards for end-to-end encryption. That the European Committee p…

Should I have to watch marketing events to make sure I'm not being spied on?

Re: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

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Post by walterbell »

bogantech wrote: post #9
walterbell wrote: post #7

Was this not announced during the iOS18 'Glowtime' event? Gosh. Thanks for the neon! https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/everything-announced-at-app... https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2023/client-si... The Internet Society makes the following recommendations based on the European Commission’s proposal: That the European Committee introduce safeguards for end-to-end encryption. That the European Committee p…

Should I have to watch marketing events to make sure I'm not being spied on?

Maybe just the ones with bright neon "Glow-foo" canary branding..
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