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  • Researchers who built rudimentary CSAM system say Apple's is a danger

    larryjwlarryjw
    rcfa said:
    The silly exculpatory listing of differences in the systems is useless.

    Did Apple leave the Russian market when Russia demanded the installation of Russian government approved apps? Did Apple leave the Russian and Chinese markets, when Russia and China demanded that iCloud servers be located in their countries where government has physical access? Did Apple leave the Chinese market, when VPN apps were requested to be removed from the Chinese AppStore? Did Apple comply when Russia demanded that Telegram be removed from the Russian AppStore? Did Apple leave the UAE when VoIP apps were outlawed there?

    NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, and NO!

    And NO will be the answer if these countries require additional databases, direct notification (instead of Apple reviewing the cases), etc.

    Once this is baked into the OS, Apple has no leg to stand on, once “lawful” requests from governments are coming.
    So you expect an American company to take on a foreign country? Get real! 

    Where’s the US in this discussion?

    Did the US protect Apple from Russian demands? No. 

    Did the US protect Apple from Chinese demands? No.

    Did the US protect Apple from UAE demands? No.

    Did the US protect Apple from EU demands? No.

    Will the US protect Apple from US demands? Silly question.

    Must Apple comply with local laws in the countries they operate in? Of course. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • China passes the world's strictest user data protection law

    larryjwlarryjw
    I like the line that says that Beijing wants companies to make money digitizing public services rather than mining social media.

    Thumbs for that. 
    doozydozenGeorgeBMactokyojimuwilliamlondon

  • Coalition for App Fairness originally Epic-funded to assist in App Store legal battles

    larryjwlarryjw
    Hopefully, this data dump will give us knowledge about how these companies operate. 

    Maybe the Fed's intervention is not such a bad idea; but, they're almost guaranteed to make matters worse?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Pay accounted for 92% of US mobile wallet debit transactions in 2020, study says

    larryjwlarryjw
    I guess if you cherry-pick enough numbers you can get whatever statistics you want. 

    Mobile Debit transactions. 

    Ok. Useful to know, a little. But, what about the whole of NFC transactions: Debit, Credit, Apple Cash (what kind of transaction is that?), Device (iOS, Android, other), Apple Watch, etc. 

    Now, those categorizations might be useful benchmarks.
    watto_cobra

  • iPad revenue is up, but are sales down because of the M1?

    larryjwlarryjw
    An opinion article with no shred of evidence anywhere. 


    techconc