Apple Has Begun Scanning Your Local Image Files Without Consent

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[–]Drewski 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Apple can no longer bill itself as the privacy option. Between that and adding advertisements to their app store and other services they have lost any higher ground. If you're still using Apple it's time to switch to Linux on desktop, and an ungoogled Android ROM on mobile.

[–]Newzok 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'm outta the loop on ROMs. Which one is decent?

[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I like the recommendations here: https://www.privacyguides.org/android/

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

LineageOs maybe, if it's still allive. I used to flash cyanogenmod when android was still new

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

BULL SHIT, when you buy a apple device the TOS say you give permission if you use the device.

[–]SoCo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are finger printing your images so the source can be later linked to you, if you share something controversial or damning to the protected class. The common dragnet technique might catch a couple criminals along the way, but mostly it will ensure political and government protesting/leaking/whistle-blowing (that isn't desired and staged by corporate interests) can be quickly identified and silenced.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

How? I don't have any Apple anything.