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Quote of the day by Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too' — a stark warning on threats to undermine privacy (www.techradar.com)
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[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145322/apple-adds-keylogger-to-ios-app-store-for-targeted-advertising-tied-to-your-account-and-unencrypted/

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So where’s the actual story with the ’provided screenshots’? This article is just some rando saying things.

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clicking links is difficult, I get it. Here, I did that for you:

https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Cool thanks. This doesn’t appear in the original article you provided and when I searched the only result for the topic was that article.

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It does you just have to click through to the source cited by Thom. Click the link halfway down the OSnews article, “Michael Tsai, quoting Mysk”, then in the resulting article click the link that says “Mysk”. That takes you to the Xitter post by Mysk with the screenshot and description (I ran it through Xcancel so as not to endure Xitter’s shitty site).

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ahhh I did click that but was viewing on my phone and it loaded to halfway through the comments and I thought it had just dumped me in a forum discussion. 🤦‍♂️

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh weird, it didn’t do that to me before but trying it again now it does the same thing to me. Apologies for the snark.

[–] Snowcano@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

No worries. I almost deserved it. 😉

[–] ennof@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This article is based on... a random twitter post that it does not even link to? I'd like to see concrete data supporting this claim.

Whole article be like: source: trust me bro

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It sounds like you trust Apple. I don't

From 2022: Apple sued for tracking users' activity even when turned off in settings The iPhone maker knows a lot about what a user does on their phone.

App developers and security researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry from the software company Mysk recently found that iOS sends "every tap you make" to Apple from inside one of the company's own apps. According to the developers, attempts to turn this data collection off, such as selecting the Settings option "disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether" did not affect the data from being sent.

https://mashable.com/article/apple-data-privacy-collection-lawsuit

From 2026: Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective

Apple said in a note to developers on Monday that in the coming weeks the company will move its anonymously generated email addresses to @private.icloud.com, effectively making it easier for apps and websites to know that an email address is private and block users from signing up.

Existing addresses will continue to function and forward mail without interruption, Apple said in the note to developers. The company added that app and email providers would have to update their filtering to ensure that emails to customers who rely on the feature continue to go through.

Several Apple users on Reddit criticized the change to the email domain, saying it would make it more difficult to use the service.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/apple-plans-to-change-its-hide-my-email-privacy-feature-that-could-make-it-less-effective/

From 2026: Siri AI may be privacy-first, but the new 'personal-context understanding' features really creep me out

Here's the thing. it doesn't actually matter how secure Apple makes its AI, I'm still not too keen on it being able to dive into the depths of my phone to score for data. It doesn't matter if the goal of that is to hand over some random piece of potentially-helpful information when it thinks I might need it.

https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/apple-intelligence/articles/siri-ai-may-privacy-first-051500606.html

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I don’t trust Apple, but I also don’t blanket distrust them. Of those three articles you posted, the only one that gives me pause is the one from 2022 where Apple was sending App Store navigation data back home. I have NEVER trusted the App Store. It has been intentionally hard to use, using dark patterns, and tracking usage ever since iPhone OS 2. Unfortunately for the researchers, it has also been very clear about this; it’s essentially a website that can only be accessed with their custom client.

Up until recently, I’ve mostly trusted Apple because their business goals align with my personal goals; breaking that trust would only harm them without providing any benefit. Recently however, the services arm of the company has gone more aggressively into advertising; I don’t trust ANYTHING from Apple that’s linked to advertising, which now includes not only the App Store, iCloud, Books, News, Stocks, Fitness, Podcasts, Apple Music and Apple TV, but also Apple Maps.