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jeffbee ◴[] No.24110022[source]
Apple exempts all their iOS software from their own privacy scaremongering. iOS never pops up a scary dialog warning you that Camera has accessed your location twice in the last week, even though Camera accesses your location every time you start it. There is a completely separate iOS privacy regime for Apple's own apps.
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acdha ◴[] No.24110222[source]
Scaremongering isn't the right way to describe a real, well-documented ongoing concern. We have a long history of app developers trying to monetize their user's privacy, and that also explains why your comparison is inaccurate: if you buy an iOS device you are already trusting Apple. If you don't trust Camera to do nothing more than geotag your photos, you can't use iOS at all because every mechanism which would protect your privacy is built by the same company.

What the privacy measures are doing is giving the user the ability to review requests for access to your personal data by parties you aren't already trusting by virtue of owning the device.

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1. fsociety ◴[] No.24121925[source]
Right by why doesn’t it say, for Apple services, “do you allow your data to be stored in China, in which the government has legal access to”?

That’s the honest truth, but they don’t put it there because it would bother people.

It’s oddly convenient to say it’s true for one case, but for the other case it’s okay because it’s Apple.

One day we will learn that ultimately we cannot trust a corporation - as that is a moving target - but instead trust reasonable operating principles for data security and privacy.

And for what it is worth.. I’d rather override all of my data that Apple collects to be stored on servers in the US. It’s nothing against China... but everything against their government.

It’s worth noting I have similar concerns with the US government too, but it is a small step in a better direction.