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Squarely a "cost of doing business" level of punishment. Worthless. But I'm sure everyone who receives a $0.37 check will feel like they've been made whole right?
Keep this in mind as you listen to them claim that privacy is built right into ‘Apple Intelligence’. The profile that is being built as that system learns about you will probably grow to be the largest potential privacy threat that has ever been introduced to these devices and ecosystem. Keep that shit off your phone.
Saw this coming 100 miles away. Any company that makes "privacy" part of their marketing campaign cannot be trusted, nor should be trusted.
So how do you find actually private services?
I self host everything. If there is not a service on Github I could not find, I just build it myself.
I'll get my 68 year old mother right on that.
So the plaintiff’s are claiming Siri was recording them without consent, and that Apple were sharing those recordings with third parties including advertisers.
Apple claims they were sometimes wrongly keeping recordings for internal quality control/analytics but hasn’t admitted to sharing them, and have agreed to the $95m settlement.
The sharing with third parties is the most egregious part here, but it doesn’t seem to be addressed any further.
Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, accused other tech companies of surveillance and said “[t]he desire to put profits over privacy is nothing new.”
I bet he'd argue paying protection money to a felon isn't anything new, too.
9 hours of profit, oh no!
Note that these were cases of it mishearing other noises as the trigger word. It’s still not recording until (it thinks) it’s heard the trigger.
