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Are you OK? Everything good at home?
Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry
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And Signal still leaks phone numbers to people, that's why I refuse use it for group chats. For encrypted 1-1 with people I already know it's fine though.
Better than Zynga, right? Corporation which has leaked kids data. Clones games, manipulates kids and adults in spending thousands of $$$ on virtual things, screwed employees from stock compensation. It's easy to criticize, right? Signal and Apple are at-least doing better than Zynga.
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Please don't cross into personal attack in HN comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The dude pretty much doxxed me and got under my skin a bit, sorry. (One needs to dig a bit further than just clicking on my HN bio to figure out where I work...)
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EU has GDPR and California has CCPA. Y'all just need to get your elected officials to copy & paste CCPA to a federal level.
To be fair, the GDPR is only good in theory but its enforcement has been severely lacking, as demonstrated by all the companies suddenly complaining about App Tracking Transparency, despite ATT only mandating what they should've done to comply with the GDPR anyway 3 years ago.
People are mostly going by hunches and third hand knowledge on these.
Re: If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry
#205Apple also has a question mark attached to its commitment to privacy in China. Even though the Twitter thread below is by a NYT reporter, it sounds directionally credible given how embedded Apple is in China, both from a manufacturing point of view and also as a growing market. 2021-MAY-18 "NEW: Apple is jeopardizing its Chinese users’ data and augmenting the Chinese government’s censorship to placate authorities and…