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If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

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Re: If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

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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

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...)

Re: 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.

I'm not sure if this is what happened, but if you tracked down where someone works and are using that to attack them, that is a serious abuse and the sort of thing we ban accounts for—so please don't do anything like that on HN. (If you didn't do anything like that, ignore this comment.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

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post #200

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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...)

I'm not sure I've understood correctly, but if https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27282083 is what happened, then yes, that is absolutely not ok.

Re: If Apple is the only organisation defending our privacy, it is time to worry

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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.

Yea, GRPD and the cookie thing could use some extra supervision and enforcement.

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

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Apple 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…

They have a big question mark attached to it anywhere. Who do you know doesn't back up their device to Apple?
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