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Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance. (www.forbes.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Incredible how many people skip the article and substitute their own reality before commenting.

Article says nothing about Apple allowing law enforcement access to any user data.

There has always been plenty to criticize about Apple, but some of you people see their name and just get so [TRIGGERED]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yep.

I'd happily crap on them for being an e-waste factory, for making it insanely hard to install anything outside of their app store, etc.

This ain't it. This is nothing.