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10 points by AHappyCamper 4 years ago

SpikeDad 4 years ago |

>There have been some serious accusations made against Apple infringing on user privacy, and essentially snooping and collecting all usage data, and I mean ALL

By whom?

AHappyCamper 4 years ago | |

Here are two:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r38Epj6ldKU

https://www.notebookcheck.net/MacOS-Big-Sur-is-spying-on-eve...

gruez 4 years ago | | |

>https://www.notebookcheck.net/MacOS-Big-Sur-is-spying-on-eve...

addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30247048

fsflover 4 years ago |

Apple spies on every application you run: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959.

gruez 4 years ago | |

> Apple spies on every application you run: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959.

You mean OSCP? It's hilarious how much hate apple gets for that when verisign/sectigo/digicert/letsencrypt "spying" on every website you visit across most operating systems elicits... nothing. If anything that's worse, because people finding out you visit grindr.com is probably way worse than people finding out you use iTerm2 or whatever.

oconnore 4 years ago |

Apple leverages iCloud backups to have visibility and LEO-compatibility into what you're doing on the device. Generally speaking, your day to day activities are carefully protected with good protocols and security design.

riidom 4 years ago | |

But protected against who? Everyone except Apple? That is kinda ambiguous phrased and kinda the point of OP, as I understood it.

AHappyCamper 4 years ago | |

Carefully protected? That's security stuff. I'm asking if Apple is analysing everything I do on their computers.

From the links above, it seems that Apple's Privacy policy reserves the rights to monitor ALL your data and usage of its devices, and that it then actuates this policy using snooping mechanisms in Mac OS. Do you agree?