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  • Apple details user privacy, security features built into its CSAM scanning system

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    newisneverenough said:
    Apple is becoming pathetic in their deafness to criticism. This not a feature. It’s an invasion of privacy and the the ´back door’ they said they wouldn’t build. I don’t buy their devices to become a part of the surveillance state. Get out the h*** out of my data, Apple. Serve the customer. iCloud is supposed to helpfully sync across devices and helpfully provide off device storage. Now, suddenly they are proud to announce that it’s become a tool for surveillance. 
    They can repeat their message of “but it’s the good kind of surveillance” as often as they want, it’s still uninvited surveillance running on your own device.  They can also keep saying that it will never expand or be abused - the history of this industry says otherwise.  Total hubris, totally tone deaf, and totally doubling down on it.
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  • MacBook Butterfly keyboard lawsuit granted class-action status

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    techconc said:
    I have a late 2016 15" MacBook Pro.  It's used heavily every day by several family members which includes teenage kids.   According to the tech press, I guess my keyboard should have blown up a long time ago.  Yet, I've never had a single problem with it.  Mind you, I'm not crazy about the lack of travel on the butterfly keyboards, but I've not had any reliability problems.  I guess I'm the lucky one??
    I had a 2017 MBP 15. The right arrow key stopped working about 3 months after I got it.  The keyboard was swapped out, it ended up frying the power controller chip soon after that - not sure if it was related to the first repair or not.  They ended up replacing it with a 2018 MBP, which is still working - for my son.  I bought a MBP 16 because I didn't trust the butterfly keyboard, particularly after buying a 2017 MB 12 for my daughter and having the letter 'C' not work right out of the box (also repaired under warranty),  I know of other butterfly keyboard issues at my small company - roughly half of the affected machines.

    So... in my experience I'd say it was a coin toss in terms of your luck, but who knows what the real numbers were.  (Maybe we'll find out with this lawsuit.)
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