<story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmobdev</author><text>Only the naive and the ignorant believe that Apple cares about users privacy. All their &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; features are just designed to collect more and more data about its users. Even unnecessary data. And they get away with it because of marketing that leads people like you to believe that they can be &amp;quot;trusted&amp;quot; with your data - the same data they use, and will use, to make more money. They have already restarted their advertising network again, like before. They claim they are no longer part of PRISM, a US government program that allowed big tech to sell user data to government agencies.</text></item><item><author>shellac</author><text>Petty and hysterical.&lt;p&gt;The part where the developer puts the word &amp;#x27;privacy&amp;#x27; in scare quotes is a bit of a red flag for me. Suggesting that &amp;quot;accept[ing] two &amp;quot;social logins&amp;quot;: Google and Facebook. All was well.&amp;quot; does not fill me with confidence that the developer respects privacy concerns.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>GeekyBear</author><text>Apple Maps:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;“We specifically don’t collect data, even from point A to point B,” notes Cue. “We collect data — when we do it — in an anonymous fashion, in subsections of the whole, so we couldn’t even say that there is a person that went from point A to point B. We’re collecting the segments of it.&lt;p&gt;The segments that he is referring to are sliced out of any given person’s navigation session. Neither the beginning or the end of any trip is ever transmitted to Apple. Rotating identifiers, not personal information, are assigned to any data or requests sent to Apple and it augments the “ground truth” data provided by its own mapping vehicles with this “probe data” sent back from iPhones.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;techcrunch.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;29&amp;#x2F;apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Google Maps:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Google Maps won&amp;#x27;t let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18070183&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18070183&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;and&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;north-america-science-technology-business-ap-top-news-828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;apnews.com&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;north-america-science-technology-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>My small revenge on Apple</title><url>https://javierantonsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/my-small-revenge-on-apple.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>webmobdev</author><text>Only the naive and the ignorant believe that Apple cares about users privacy. All their &amp;quot;privacy&amp;quot; features are just designed to collect more and more data about its users. Even unnecessary data. And they get away with it because of marketing that leads people like you to believe that they can be &amp;quot;trusted&amp;quot; with your data - the same data they use, and will use, to make more money. They have already restarted their advertising network again, like before. They claim they are no longer part of PRISM, a US government program that allowed big tech to sell user data to government agencies.</text></item><item><author>shellac</author><text>Petty and hysterical.&lt;p&gt;The part where the developer puts the word &amp;#x27;privacy&amp;#x27; in scare quotes is a bit of a red flag for me. Suggesting that &amp;quot;accept[ing] two &amp;quot;social logins&amp;quot;: Google and Facebook. All was well.&amp;quot; does not fill me with confidence that the developer respects privacy concerns.</text></item><item><author>spinningarrow</author><text>Seems a bit petty to me. As a developer I empathize with the possible lack of documentation (I don’t know, I never tried to integrate Sign In with Apple) but as a user I actually am super happy with it. Nowadays any iOS app that doesn’t support logging in with Apple makes me think twice about whether I really need the app.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RL_Quine</author><text>They implemented end to end encryption in iMessage to collect more data? There&amp;#x27;s a vast array of technical instances where apple has gone above and beyond to implement privacy preserving technology, even when they weren&amp;#x27;t talking about it. This is, like the OP, hysteria without any basis in fact.</text></comment>