Think about who big tech is after. Who have they attacked. YOU!!!!
They'll be able to see what you took screenshots of, what you sent to friends in iMessage, what you saved as you found truth, what you disputed as you researched politics and COVID and every other topic.
Then they blackmail you. They can plant anything and blame you. Think about it. All they have to do is plant ONE image and blame you. Then you spend the entire rest of your life fighting to get your reputation clean. If you have a security clearance YOU ARE DONE!
Apple will crush anyone they want. They will have access to everything you do. Through your Mac, through your iPhone, because of iCloud integration and backdoors you know they built into iOS and MacOS. Everything you research, everything you have posted, every site you have visited, every photo you saved, every image you edited, everything that was sent to you that you didn't even ask for, every joke, every meme. All of it can be used against you.
This is freaking madness. Apple needs to stand down. I will never give them another cent of my money. Ever. I'm almost a fanboy, but they've lost that. I have many Mac computers, 4 iPhones in the house, headphones, etc. NEVER AGAIN!!! Replacing it all. iCloud done. I'm out.
You?
It's not about photos. It's about how Apple could plant photos that aren't even yours because they disagree with you, use other info against you because of your views, and ruin your life because they access your system(s).
Fuck Apple. I agree with arresting child porn idiots. What I disagree with is how they will go about it by abusing me in the process.
I agree with everything you said.
I;m just saying if you have an iPhone disable iCloud completely and you don't have to worry about it
Except you don't, because you believe disabling iCloud is all you have to do to stop Apple from spying on you, even though macOS is completely closed source.
It's very possible to run Android on Wi-Fi only and eliminate 99% of the shenanigans by ensuring the Wi-Fi connection itself is passing traffic through an ad-blocker/firewall on your home network. You can even block Google services completely until you specifically allow them if you know what you're doing.
Never said that. I was just talking about this new photo scanning
In one place I saw Apple said they'd scan your phone, not just your iCloud account. That's what made the hair on my neck stand up.
It's only for photos that are set to sync with iCloud. We'll see when it rolls out I guess
...for the first wave. It always starts as a good cause. Then it goes for a security purpose. Then for authoritarian purposes.
Wash, rinse, repeat. We've seen this play out in history. We give in now or we fight it. I hope they nab every child porn freak who exists. But this is surely more sinister than just going after them. That's how they appease us to let them in.
If I disable iCloud and remove pictures from iCloud, are they still able to see what I’ve deleted from iCloud? I’m not sure how all this works.
Right. And the fact that they most certainly will expand it, just as quietly, and 90 percent of people will have no idea. That’s the problem for me. If the outrage wasn’t so palpable, I would have had no idea. That is not ok.