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?
Turned off all iCloud Drive syncing, and downloaded/removed all photos and turned off iCloud photo syncing for all my devices. If any of you do this, make sure you delete the data from the iCloud service as well. You can turn off iCloud photos, and it will ask you if you want to download originals (if you do not have them downloaded already). Do this by going to preferences in the photo album app or in settings on an iPhone/iPad. If you do that then you can leave your photos in the album on that device and make a copy of them for backup elsewhere. Once you have a copy of your photos, you can go to iCloud.com and delete them from there in batches of 1000. Make sure to remove them from the Recently Deleted folder as well. I recommend making sure to move your iCloud Drive files from there to local folders and disabling the Desktop/Documents folder syncing. We all know before long they'll be scanning all of that as well. Also, I would recommend that you delete and disable iCloud device backup in settings on any iPhone/iPad. You can do local encrypted backups through Finder, which is MUCH safer. Get a nice fat storage drive to use with Time Machine, and it will keep all that data safe and recoverable. Fuck Apple after this. I wrote them a nice feedback letter.
THIS ^^^^^^^^
Especially the FUCK APPLE part!
If you've uploaded it to iCloud or Facebook or any of these other companies, it's not going away, and they will gladly pay the fines, even into the billions of dollars to the EU, for brazenly breaking the law. Until there's jail time and real consequences, it's just the cost of doing business.
True true. However, they don’t need any new data from me or my family going forward. Also cutting the subs, sending feedback, and not purchasing their hardware (which is where they make most of their revenue) will show them we’re pissed. And everyone is pissed. The number of people of all walks of life, including normies who are incredibly skeptical is amazing to me. I don’t really care that they know what I do, but I sure as hell am not intentionally giving them free reign to review my photos and data whenever they feel like it. It’s the principle of the matter.