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Apple products do a lot of things with your data without asking; this seems like farce to me. I'm all for marketing to one's strengths, but Apple products leak so much data (hardware serial numbers, for example) that this sort of marketing strikes me now as actively dishonest. Apple collects just as much data (sometimes more!) as all of these shady data broker types they vilify in the document.
Apple knows they're going toe-to-toe with Facebook, and they don't seem to plan to lose.
This feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors, because Apple doesn't have a social network, Facebook doesn't sell computers, and indeed Facebook is currently among the grossing apps in the iOS App Store, 30% of which Apple gets. If Facebook was as terrible as Apple makes them out to be, why would Apple allow Facebook in their App Store and take 30% of the generated re…
Apple products do a lot of things with your data without asking; this seems like farce to me. I'm all for marketing to one's strengths, but Apple products leak so much data (hardware serial numbers, for example) that this sort of marketing strikes me now as actively dishonest. Apple collects just as much data (sometimes more!) as all of these shady data broker types they vilify in the document.
Care to share any examples or references of where Apple is being dishonest here?
Your client IP discloses the city the device is in, and the ISP. This means that Apple has a city-level, ISP-level location tracklog of every iOS device and all M1 macs (and possibly intel macs too) by serial number.
You're not asked, you're not even told. This is the exact opposite of their headline founder quote on the first non-title page of the doc.
If ads are just restricted to intent based on page/video/query, small advertisers lose out on effectiveness but is this is a big issue for big advertisers? I have read FB engineers comment on HN that FB has a long tail of advertisers. Is that why they are being more vocal out of all companies? In any case, I personally don't have a problem with ads as a revenue medium for companies, just the expansive data mining, es…
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This feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors, because Apple doesn't have a social network, Facebook doesn't sell computers, and indeed Facebook is currently among the grossing apps in the iOS App Store, 30% of which Apple gets. If Facebook was as terrible as Apple makes them out to be, why would Apple allow Facebook in their App Store and take 30% of the generated re…
Apple gets no revenue from Facebook, their app is free and has no in-app purchases.
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Care to share any examples or references of where Apple is being dishonest here?
The Jobs quote on page 2. All iOS devices and all M1 macs maintain a persistent serial-number-linked connection to Apple at all times, even if you don't use iCloud, don't have an Apple ID, don't use FaceTime/iMessage, don't use the App Store, and have analytics turned off. No indication that this is happening is displayed, and there's no way to turn it off. Your client IP discloses the city the device is in, and the…
Apple knows they're going toe-to-toe with Facebook, and they don't seem to plan to lose.
This feels to me like Apple creating a convenient Orwellian enemy. They're not even competitors, because Apple doesn't have a social network, Facebook doesn't sell computers, and indeed Facebook is currently among the grossing apps in the iOS App Store, 30% of which Apple gets. If Facebook was as terrible as Apple makes them out to be, why would Apple allow Facebook in their App Store and take 30% of the generated re…
Where is Apple doing this? Far as I can tell Apple are just saying that people don’t understand how their data is being used, and that companies should educate, and get informed consent.
It’s Facebook that’s demonising Apple here, not the other way around. Other than in direct responses to attacks by Facebook, where has Apple even used Facebook’s name?
Apple products do a lot of things with your data without asking; this seems like farce to me. I'm all for marketing to one's strengths, but Apple products leak so much data (hardware serial numbers, for example) that this sort of marketing strikes me now as actively dishonest. Apple collects just as much data (sometimes more!) as all of these shady data broker types they vilify in the document.
You don't seem terribly interested in providing any evidence to back up these claims.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants...
How about hardware implants? https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/the-nsa-rep...