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Apple sees positive customer reaction to App Tracking Transparency
What I don’t like about this article and specifically Apple’s comments is they aren’t plain and straight forward. “ATT” and “third party”. I understand it but the average person is clueless to how significantly this blocks your private data from being collected.What I like about this article is how much it drives the paid trolls, trolls and haters into a tizzy to hear this, then have nothing coherent to say in their whirling attempt to defend Google (and Facebook’s) massive private data collection on users. They’ll reply with “they all do it”, there’s Pegasus!, you use the internet so isn’t private! and more. I Love it When the subject comes up and the trolls/haters have to find someway to try and obscure the truth.
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2022 Mac Pro said to use Intel Ice Lake Xeon W-3300 CPU
High end silicon Mac not to come until late 2022.
Intel Macs to come in 2002.
In other news, iPad to have LED in 2002 right after they don't have LED in 2002 -- both from VERY reliable sources.
Conclusion1, it is earning times for Intel and Apple and others. Stories (and I do mean stories) get extra play and earnings news bump can be achieved
Conclusion 2, what will happen with 2022 Macs will not be known in July of 2021.
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Elon Musk takes jabs at Apple during Tesla earnings call
williamh said:Wall garden (cough) can we load our own software on a Tesla or sell software on the Tesla? Just curious. Not that I’d want to.For those of you fighting against the Apple “walled garden”, you do want unvetted software running on your car don’t you?
This times 100. He going to open up the info center on his cars for any app maker on the Internet? So interesting that other companies so urgently want Apple to do something yet hey are either doing it in their own ways or trying to do it. And notice Elon gave a nice corporate media answer 'well we are working towards a future.I'd love for another EV company to say 'great, when can we start using this open charging platform'.
Disappointed in Elon on this. I get the jabs at Apple in the other ways. that's competition. This is a contact sport. But on this one he is being a media suckup, the same media he put down so much previously.
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WhatsApp CEO takes issue with NSO's denials of iPhone Pegasus hacks
“Surveillance capitalism” is not my phrase, it was coined by privacy rights group. However, your point is taken regarding “surveillance” and WhatApp and alarmist as it applies to the OP. Though it is a different subject, I don’t doubt end to end comms are quite secure, I’m sure. Nowadays comms aren’t as often attacked (very unlikely MITM excepted). Modern TLS/SSL has made it difficult. Much more efficient to go after an app vulnerability or vulnerability within the root/OS.avon b7 said:
The problem is that your first paragraph was alarmist and extreme because you know that WhatsApp chats are mostly end-to-end encrypted.ArchStanton said:
Wow, vulnerability fixes? Great moving of the point away from the factual, publicly known, data mining that is done by WhatApp/Facebook. I'll speak to vulnerability fixes and your laughable claim that Apple "doesn't care" after the point at hand. Fact, WhatApp/Facebook within their ToS, not a secret (though they like calling it "improving user experience") collects your location, your contacts, the common words, phrases, sentences you use --and more-- across a smartphone's usage. They do this because if they know where you go, they have an idea of what you will buy and what you can be enticed to buy. If they also know who you know(and where they go) and who you speak to most, they have an even better idea of what you'll buy and what you can be enticed to buy. If they know what phrases you often type, they now have an even better dat profile of you to get you and entice you to buy things etc etc etc. The more they know the more certain they are as to what you will buy and can be enticed to buy (they'll even know if one or two or three ads will likely get it done).urahara said:
BSArchStanton said:WHATAPP is a surveillance app in its own right -- unless one believes everywhere where you go, what you type, almost everyone you know, almost everything you buy (among others) recorded into a single profile of you isn't surveillance.
With that said, this guy is absolutely right. Apple was wimpy on this, feeble. They put out a media department canned answer. Apple doesn't scour and record everything you do in order to monetize iit and this is their response? Weak...
your 1st paragraph: Where did you get the information that WhatsApp does all that?
your 2nd paragraph: Have you ever checked the notes to any of the iOS updates? Where there any security vulnerability fixes? What are the chances that Apple doesn’t care about the security of iPhone?
Congratulations, you have just been given an education on how Facebook earns the majority of its 100+ billion dollars in revenue a year.
Now as an internet poster, you are likely to again claim "that's BS!" and continue to misinform and try to confuse on this factual, very publicly known process of data mining monetization. For those that aren't trolls, please take just a short bit of time to web search the term "surveillance capitalism". I suggest you do not use Google as they are the biggest data miner, even above #2 Facebook. Once done, some may not care that their data is mined. That is their choice. For those that may be concerned, both Facebook and Google (and Apple too) are now required to provide you a copy of the data they have mined on you. It's a free copy. Request a copy and they'll make download links available to you. Just be prepared from Facebook (and Google) to have a lot to download and a HUGE amount of your private data to see.
On patching vulnerabilities, that's just unbelievable someone would go there, "Apple doesn't care:". Anyone who takes the time to be cognizant of vulnerabilities knows that updates are typically the only way to patch the always evolving security vulnerabilities. Apple has the vast number of their user base updated within a week or two of update release. Approaching 75% of the world uses Android and a huge number walk around with a phone not updated many months after an update is released. That's another one of those facts you conveniently leave out, fyi.
But right, Pegasus is was reported in news -- so Apple doesn't care! As reported, a highly sophisticated (and likely expensive) operation that is used by gov agencies may have minded data of smartphone users. They didn't say only iPhones. Guess you missed that part too? Or you knew that and are, ahem, out there accusing Android of not caring!! about security?
You also know that although WhatsApp is part of Facebook, private chats are exactly that, 'private'. Yes, Facebook will track you (metadata included) and your behaviour for all it is worth. Apple does the same directly or indirectly, even if it doesn't put that much emphasis into monetising it.
Surveillance is a perfect example of the 'extreme' angle.
By that definition your ISP is also a surveillance organisation.
There are devil's in the details all over the place of course but most people will be happy knowing that what they type into WhatsApp can only be seen by the receiver of the text (vulnerabilities excepted).
Of course, the more privacy you seek, the more effort you will put into finding and using apps like Signal.
However, if you live somewhere like the EU there are other data protection measures at your disposal (including access to and erasure of what someone might have on you).
https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/gdpr-eight-user-rights/amp/#Do_I_Have_To_Comply_With_A_Right_To_Erasure_Request
But again that is a different subject. On the subject of data privacy: wrong, Your private chats are not just you and the end receiver. ToS, they use your text under a fine sounding “metadata” in your profile. It’s most used words and phrases.
You are Right: If my isp is logging and recording my data and websites usage (they’re not thanks to the magic of VPN), and then are monetizing it, that is surveillance. And as said before, one of the worst parts is the more data they get the more they can monetize. The huge incentive is to find more and record more.Wrong, Apple does not do it indirectly or directly. How do I know this? Besides they don’t monetize itsodont have the incentive, but I got a copy of my data from both Apple and Google. Apples data mining was extremely scant. No Siri, virtually nothing. They had a handful of locations when using Apple Maps, only when using it. Why wouldn’t it be scant, they don’t monetize it so they don’t have incentive to push it. Google’s recordings were massive. Google voice I’ve never ever! used! and it was there. Maybe that is most concerning. But their tracking across apps was staggering.I have not done request from Facebook. I’ve used WhatApp twice so a Facebook data request may be worth requesting as this is an important subject to me. Facebook is second only to Google in private data mining incentivized Monetizing.
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Apple MagSafe Battery Pack Review: Great, but controversial
Some will buy and like it, a few will buy it and not like it, many won't buy it. That's controversial? If the price seems high then there are third party sellers to fill the less expensive option. OEMs are almost always more expensive than third party. Of course chances are good, but not certain, the less expensive model will not perform and/or last as long as the OEM. Third party sellers selling for less, often a cheaper product too, is pretty standard operating procedure for accessories.
So it is the word "controversial" that immediately suggests clickbait material. Right now the vast majority of Apple stories are framed as controversy click bait. Apple offering an iPhone cover is !controversial! The ensuing troll and troll farming that follows is entertaining.
As far as videos and websites rating products etc, the Internet is factually significantly troll farmed and (attempted) highly manipulated. It has become a purposeful confusion to potential consumers of many things. It's an unfortunate disservice to consumers for what should be one of the best informational tools. So what it means is a potential consumer cannot put faith in video and webpages -- certainly not comment sections. As another poster aptly suggested, you have to search multiple places and sites to get any sort of honest view of anything.
IMHO AI is less trolled and clickbait. Not that it isn't, it is, but easy comparisons to some other similar content sites shows AI to be a better source of information. Another site clearly has the clickbait machine revving with its Twitter mob like troll/troll farming populating each !controversy! almost instantly. AI is far better on that front.