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Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have never liked Apple and lately even less. F.... US monopolies

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Apple is being thoughtful about doing this in a (theoretically) privacy-preserving way, but I don’t think the company is living up to its ideals here," observed software developer Michael Tsai in an analysis shared Wednesday. "Not only is it not opt-in, but you can’t effectively opt out if it starts uploading metadata about your photos before you even use the search feature. It does this even if you’ve already opted out of uploading your photos to iCloud."

Reading the article, the service itself is interesting and it sounds like Apple might have found a way to process the data while preserving user privacy, but the fact that they unilaterally opted everyone in without giving them a choice is the biggest problem.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's Apple though. "We know what you want better than you do" is almost a company mantra.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not almost, it just is. It is the winning strategy right now. Everyone who is doing it gains massive profits somehow. Money speaks for itself, isn’t it?

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I doubt every company who shits on it's user's privacy and their preferred experience is gaining massive profits right now, we're just discussing the successful ones. I think the two leading factors in this scenario are "Brand Recognition" and "double dipping into as many aspects as possible with your user's data." The whole 'if it's free', apple is definitely getting a kick back sending all this data to them even if it's "secure".

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 2 days ago

Agreed, I'm not an Apple fan, but the headline is vague enough to make things seem worse than they are.