Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
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Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#2Can we see the interoperability requests that meta submitted?
That would clarify if the shade is legit.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#3Meta understands that in an AI agentic world, having access at the OS level is crucial.
The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more. Only Apple has OS level access for agentic AI but Meta wants it too.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#4At the very least, for apps that require this much access, such "interoperability" should be off by default with a big warning that says:
[ ] Check here if you want to share all your data (or something more precise) with Meta. Warning: possibly insecure. Use at your own risk.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#5Meta understands that in an AI agentic world, having access at the OS level is crucial. The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more. Only Apple has OS level access for agentic AI but Meta wants it too.
> The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more.
"Useful" is misleading. It should be "useful for the big corps for entrenching you further into proprietary technology so that they can take advantage of you later".
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#6Meta understands that in an AI agentic world, having access at the OS level is crucial. The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more. Only Apple has OS level access for agentic AI but Meta wants it too.
> The AI becomes significantly more useful if it understands your digital life more. "Useful" is misleading. It should be "useful for the big corps for entrenching you further into proprietary technology so that they can take advantage of you later".
All so they can better target ads to you. Who needs cookies?
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#7At the very least, for apps that require this much access, such "interoperability" should be off by default with a big warning that says: [ ] Check here if you want to share all your data (or something more precise) with Meta. Warning: possibly insecure. Use at your own risk.
Every user would just check that option and press yes. The reality is that most users don't ever read any message the phone gives to them, they just treat it like any other popup and press yes. Take a look at any normal person using a phone when a permission notification appears or an error appears: they won't even read it, just press any button that closes it as fast as possible.
There's good reason to not have this prompt and not give these abilities to applications. Apple's reason to oppose the DMA and Meta here might be different, though.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#8At the very least, for apps that require this much access, such "interoperability" should be off by default with a big warning that says: [ ] Check here if you want to share all your data (or something more precise) with Meta. Warning: possibly insecure. Use at your own risk.
Every user would just check that option and press yes. The reality is that most users don't ever read any message the phone gives to them, they just treat it like any other popup and press yes. Take a look at any normal person using a phone when a permission notification appears or an error appears: they won't even read it, just press any button that closes it as fast as possible. There's good reason to not have this…
> Every user would just check that option and press yes.
Not if it's available in the developer options, or has more other sorts of friction to check the box. Or if it has a red warning label with the phrase "may increase the chance of hackers stealing your data and impersonating you".
One just has to make it unattractive enough to most.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#9At the very least, for apps that require this much access, such "interoperability" should be off by default with a big warning that says: [ ] Check here if you want to share all your data (or something more precise) with Meta. Warning: possibly insecure. Use at your own risk.
We have decades of experience going back to Vista that this does not work.
Users trust companies like Apple, Google etc not to place them in harm's way.
And so when prompts like this are shown they will quite happily approve without even reading the words.
Re: Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
#10The Reuters report on this is much more detailed: https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-slams-metas-numerou...
And yes, Meta isn’t denying requesting everything under the sun. Their only retort is Apple’s privacy concerns are anticompetitive excuses. Two things can be true: Apple is only protecting their own interests, and Meta is a terrible would-be guardian of all the data they’re requesting.