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At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

What exactly is the surveillance part of this article? So far it seemed like a normal application developer conference deal but the page reloaded and now I only get paywall. I found myself feeling rather unsurprised.

Who would believe that a business as big as Apple wouldn’t comply with law enforcement requests in the first place? Of course they would when technically possible. They’re in the business of making money first, not defending you.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Yep, the article is about Apple showing cops how to use the tech, what apps the police in other countries is using to support their daily work and the police evaluating the use of more Apple tech in their daily duty (Carplay, Vision, etc.).

There’s nothing about spying on normal Apple users or Apple handing out your personal data to the cops in that article.

Clickbait headline.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Once you get 3/4 through this article, and get to the actual content, it’s pretty underwhelming. Apple was basically just showing cops that they could be querying their existing databases with iOS mobile and or CarPlay experiences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That website is complete trash. It won't even scroll for me. It just shows the badge and that's all. This is what happens when they're constantly trying to enforce specific user actions rather than just building a working website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It’s like when you have a simple blog that for some bizarre reason is a single page JavaScript web app.