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Apple releases macOS Big Sur 11.6 with security fixes
I have no desire to upgrade anything macOS any more. Nor do I want a speaker that listens or a watch that syncs my most personal info via server farm in the USA. My Photos app is empty due to always on image tagging. I have turned 'Find My iPhone' off. Should users be able to locate or wipe an iPhone after a loss without needing this on 24/7? My 2010 pro is as fast as the base 2019, yet 'obsolete' + unsupported. I'd rather keep using it. It was and is still 'insanely great' and fast enough. This increasingly feels like a lost decade.
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Fired Apple employee who aired workplace concerns gets approval to sue company
... drilling down on some of the article links may better help understand her concerns and zeitgeist ...
https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icloud-id
https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apartment-was-built-on-toxic-waste/
As a very long time Apple customer I have had increasing questions about Apple's direction since 2011.
I am reminded of the 'Think Different' campaign that featured images of individuals such as the civil rights lawyer Gandhi...
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Apple has the best privacy amongst all of the video streaming providers
One other consideration for Netflix 4K on Apple TV seems the main account login for watching is unable to delete history - alt users (and history) seem to be able to be deleted by the admin...chasm said:Putting aside the PeaNUT Gallery’s attempt to drag CSAM into this — this is what I have been advising my clients for years. Buy a smart TV, hook it up to your WiFi, get any firmware/tv software update that needs to be done, then disconnect the TV from the Internet and go get an Apple TV box.You still have to deal with the nefarious policies of any services you decide to sign up for (excluding Apple TV+), but at least your TV and your streaming device is not collecting massive amounts of rather intimate data about you, selling that data, and showing you ADDITIONAL ads …
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Tech industry needs to rebuild user trust after privacy losses, says Tim Cook
"the web has become this surveillance tool"
This work contemplates Apple's role and threats beyond privacy: www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism
Cory Doctorow also weighs in: onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
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Open letter asks Apple not to implement Child Safety measures
“In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself,” Cook said in a 2019 commencement speech at Stanford University. “Not entirely at first. Just a little, bit by bit. To risk less, to hope less, to imagine less, to dare less, to create less, to try less, to talk less, to think less. The chilling effect of digital surveillance is profound, and it touches everything.”“Instead of focusing on making it easy for people to report content that’s shared with them, Apple has built software that can scan all the private photos on your phone -- even photos you haven’t shared with anyone,”I remember being shocked when Photos replaced iPhoto in that it had auto tagging with no opt out or off switch...
