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Privacy
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Headline: iPhone is harvesting your data!
Article: Facebook, LinkedIn, and TikTok are harvesting your data.
It's pretty clear that it's Apps, not iPhone. But also... iPhone is responsible for holding application developers to their terms of service. It's absolutely appropriate to criticize them for failing to deliver what they're selling in terms of claims to a more private ecosystem.
Do the android versions also harvest data?
They do.
So why call out iphone? Because they’re supposed to manage every telemetric aspect of the 2.24 million apps on the app store?
Sure, ok. This connectivity is allowed, This connectivity isn’t. Sounds great, how do they find that information out? Super magical quantum computers probably.
Why call out the company that claims they protect privacy when they fail to protect privacy? No idea.
Privacy isn’t a concrete object. Like you can buy a six pack of freedom and a bag of privacy. Pretending Apple’s responsible for all apps’ behavior is bullshit.
It's fine if you're cool being lied to. I'm not. Though, it's hard to find any company that isn't lying to you one way or another.
If they make an example of the big rule breakers, the rest will fall into line, making it easier to spot the little trouble makers...think of it like form mods. Sure they can't catch everything, but by constantly allowing garbage through, that's all they'll get. If they enforce the rules then less will attempt to break them.