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Other It’s not about privacy for Apple.
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President Bush was the one forced companies to do the dirty work for free under Patriot Act.
Before you use any personal note taking app you should do your research on them. There are e2e encrypted options out there (which, feature wise, should be a deal breaking necessity).
However, with Apple notes if you set a password for your notes then the notes are E2E encrypted, so they cannot collect any content this way.
Source: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec1782bcab1/web
Doesn’t this simply mean that notes can be stored in the cloud without end-to-end encryption? You will find the same disclaimer for any Apple app that uses iCloud.
I do not have anything to hide except my financials. All of these companies, to some extent, use your information to their advantage. I quit all social media and found it liberating. The amount of my time wasted on this was stupid. The world kept spinning and I don’t regret it!
Forums. like this, are as close to social media as it comes for me.
Forums. like this, are as close to social media as it comes for me.
First: Welcome to MR!
Second: While you argument around privacy, tracking, business based choices other companies, "own your data" etc. and Apple…
you wrote that. 😂🤣
Sorry, that’s where you clearly moved into boffola country.
No need to reply. Can’t see it. Blocked.
Second: While you argument around privacy, tracking, business based choices other companies, "own your data" etc. and Apple…
you wrote that. 😂🤣
Sorry, that’s where you clearly moved into boffola country.
No need to reply. Can’t see it. Blocked.
Your point on a broader scale is if a tech company wants or gas to surveil you it’s possible. Anything is possible, pick your scenario and then go from there. However it’s basically a straw man, since csam hash scanning is at least known to some extent.
Thanks for sharing! Not the best workflow to set a password for every single note, but still an option. Thank you!
I would love to know what this exactly means.
For now when I read that user content is collected and linked to my identity I understand that it’s exactly this.
So if anyone has more information about this I would love to hear that!
I definitely believe that Apple collects less data than Facebook. That doesn’t mean that the oculus is not a great VR headset. I was really impressed when I tried it.
Have to define “privacy”. As for Apple keeping your info close held and not sharing … yes. However Apple won’t say what happens to that data or what Apple uses it for or what it shares.
Bigger thing I think is doing what you can to control your data and not keeping all your eggs under one banner.
No it’s not ideal, for personal notes I would choose something either foss self hosted, or something like Standard Notes. But the option is there in the 1st party app, which is a great app - and that’s a boon for privacy right there.
I agree 100%. And that’s what I do. And anyone that knows this stuff does too.
But most don’t. And everyone in this camp is either iOS or a mainstream android flavour. Most don’t even know or sadly care what happens to their data, and for them, the choice should clearly be Apple.
This is Apple at what they do best, it just works; it’s privacy for the masses out of the box. Apple have your data, but there it seems to stay for the most part. Android takes a lot of work or a specific distro to be a better product than vanilla iOS, privacy wise. The target audience don’t know how or even know that they should.
You have to trust Apple, which obviously negates it all, but as I and you have said, those that know do things to mitigate this or to remove the need for trust.
I checked a handful of Apple apps that can store data in iCloud and this disclaimer is present in all of them. It seems to me that this simply refers to the cloud storage. ICloud is not ent to end encrypted and Apple in theory can read the documents you store on the cloud.
But I also posted in notes that I was going to have hot nookie at 3am will he also be surveilling that?
I have a plan , I’ll write on notes that I’m having a dump at 0800 hours but re-schedule for 0900 on the Sly
Really interesting conversation. I had my own questions somehow related to this, but it seems that topic did not received much attention.
The thing is... none of the stock Apple apps are going through the Privacy section of the iOS / iPadOS. Accessing Contacts, Microphone, Camera, Photos Library, Music Library, etc, everything is free on the table for stock apps, without any possibility to cut access to say... Messages app at Photos Library (just for example).
The thing is... none of the stock Apple apps are going through the Privacy section of the iOS / iPadOS. Accessing Contacts, Microphone, Camera, Photos Library, Music Library, etc, everything is free on the table for stock apps, without any possibility to cut access to say... Messages app at Photos Library (just for example).
1. Please download DuckDuckGo visit Apple.com and see yourself.
2. See Privacy notice in the App Store for Apple notes (I also shared a screenshot here in this thread)
3. See privacy notice in the App Store for Apple music
4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identifier_for_Advertisers