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Apple updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with new Intel chips, enhanced butterfly keyboa...
Apple updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with new Intel chips, enhanced butterfly keyboa... ← intended or accident? Either way
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Apple building large car drive rooms as Project Titan lives on
How did you come to that conclusion? Afaik, "drive room" is a term made up by the analyst Irwin. Further, he said it was battery tech related. More so, he expands to battery tech and drive systems... hence "drive room" as in propulsion mechanisms. Simply from a space utilization perspective, a big room to drive in doesn't make any sense. A test mule disguised as another brand is infinitely more sensible, done all the time, and accomplishes the goal of secrecy with the added bonus of real world driving data.welshdog said:Obviously "driving rooms" means extremely large interior spaces where cars can be driven safe from prying eyes. Not a difficult thing to do, but an expensive one from the standpoint of utilization of real estate square footage. Of course if you own the building then costs moving forward are lower since you aren't paying a building lease.
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Editorial: Why is privacy-minded Apple putting its new TV app on smart TVs notorious for s...
Not to defend DED, but that quote from Digitialtrends does not support your assertion. You said: "...Apple collects and sells aggregate, anonymized data." That's not true at all. Apple does sell ad spaced based on anonymized, aggregated data. They don't sell the data. The advertisers have no idea who you are. If we are going to represent facts, we need to represent facts factually. Selling data (as you claimed) and selling ad space based on data is not a distinction without a difference. Those are two entirely different things. The fact that Apple collects and uses data for targeted advertising is not a secret. They tell you they do it. They tell you here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223 ; as well as in their overall privacy policy. The problem is Apple uses privacy so effectively as a marketing tool, people far too often confuse and conflate their marketing with their actual policy.Latko said:
Digitaltrends.com on Apple:corrections said:
Sorry, NoLatko said:The minimal distinction between Apple and the “evel” data collectors is that Apple collects and sells aggregate, anonymized data.
That is, you as an individual still exist, but only under a cumbersome id (instead of your name) that others may very well relate to your name via usage patterns - even while Apple won’t.
So that distinction is MINIMAL to ZERO, further in the value chain.
So - contrary to what the article suggests - Apple IS collecting data on users collectively and selling TONS of aggeregate data to enable spying purposes.
Apple collects and sells aggregate, anonymized data = false
” the company does use your data to sell targeted ads based on your activity in the News and App Store apps. You can actually see what information Apple is using here by going to Settings, Privacy, then Advertising. ... Apple will send you your data in chunks, up to 25GB.
may 23 2018”
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Editorial: Why is privacy-minded Apple putting its new TV app on smart TVs notorious for s...
You may want to enable Limit Ad Tracking to opt out of targeted advertising. By default targeted advertising is enabled. You won't be able to get rid of ads entirely. They just won't be targeted to your interests. I'd also recommend resetting your Advertising Identifier first, then enabling Limit Ad Tracking. Understand that apps that don't use Apple's ad platform aren't affected by Limit Ad Tracking unless they track you using Apple's Advertising Identifier. If they track using other software, all bets are off. Separately, you may want to turn off Location Based Apple Ads, also enabled by default.Folio said:Savvy move, IF one can pinpoint the blame for any privacy slip and therefore shift to Apple TV to get wholly within protected ecosystem. Case in point: Last night I was searching in private mode using Safari iOS 12.3 iphone X on Duck Duck Go. Everytime I clicked on a link (for fish sauce) I was served an advertisement, based on past browsing history days ago (cat scratching issue). Even though I keep in phone in private dark mode and use DDG, someone was tracking! When one small banner ad exploded and took up 80 percent of real estate I cut short my search. Looked up DDG on Wiki and see they still make big claims but are allied with Yahoo and Bing. But I'm not sure who to blame really. DDG? ATT my provider? Siri who I've given much tracking leeway? How do I (and Apple) prevent in future? It's a dystopia come true, when ads takeover and infringe on productivity. Most of time I switch off Javascript on mobile, but not last night.
Relevant info found here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
Hope that helps.
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Editorial: Why is privacy-minded Apple putting its new TV app on smart TVs notorious for s...
So that I don't misunderstand your points DED, is it your contention that Apple
1. doesn't do tracking for targeted advertising?
2. doesn't do tracking for analytics on how customers interact on their website?
3. doesn't hand over data to authorities?
I hope those aren't your points and I don't want to assume you mean something you don't. Please don't let those be your points. I'll be sad for you if they are.
Also there's nothing false in Gatorguy's post relative to Apple. I'd actually like to see you find something false in it. Not by using your stock and trade: deflection, hyperbole, and ad hominem like you did above, but directly refuting the points he made... with actual facts that counter them. I don't think you can.