Apple has been a great privacy advocate but doesn’t get mentioned in comments like these and gets dragged through the mud for having proprietary cables and particular UI aesthetics. It’s interesting to observe who it’s fashionable to hate and the double standards this community applies to tech companies.

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NooneAtAll3 a day ago | parent | next [-]

you mean Apple that scans all your photos to send to police? despite all the flak it got after first attempt at doing so?

	▲	an0malous a day ago \| parent [-]
		source?

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zwnow a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You mean Apple that said they'd never spy on their users only to be caught spying on their users?

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an0malous a day ago | parent [-]

source?

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zwnow 15 hours ago | parent [-]

You can just check on the Siri Privacy Lawsuit from 2021 which was recently settled.

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an0malous 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This is absurd, the lawsuit alleged Apple was recording conversations and selling them to advertisers. There was no proof, just a settlement due to the fact that they might have recorded conversations from mistakenly identifying users saying “Hey Siri”. To characterize that as “spying” is misleading at best and lying to most reasonable people.

	▲	zwnow an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Just read Cory Doctorows most recent book. It features the enshittification of Apple, I am sure you'll find enough reasons urself to distrust Apple. There is not a single tech giant out there to be trusted with your data.

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submeta a day ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean the Apple that gets targeted by Israel spyware firms constantly? The Apple iPhone used by a Saudi journalist named Adman Khasoggi whose iphone was hacked with Israeli spyware, targeted and murdered? Just one example.

Apple devices aren’t secure either.

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jfindper a day ago | parent | next [-]

This is a silly take unless you believe that Apple facilitated its devices being hacked.

Privacy and security are two different things.

"It’s interesting to observe who it’s fashionable to hate and the double standards this community applies to tech companies" Indeed....

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an0malous a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean the Apple that refuses to build government backdoors in spite of intense pressure from possibly the most powerful entity in the world, the US military intelligence community.

You're also conflating security with privacy, a security hole is unintentional it's not like they were selling their customer's information. No system is perfectly secure. Apple has done more to address those issues than any other tech company. They’re targeted because they’re popular, maybe your antagonism should be directed towards the country that openly sells such software to murderous authoritarian regimes or the government that condones it from their alleged “greatest ally”

	▲	bigyabai a day ago \| parent [-]
		Refuses is not the right word, there is no way to audit Apple's refusal or hold them accountable here. US Senator Ron Wyden whistleblew how iOS Push Notifications are collected by US intelligence, which is concerning when you consider how much iMessage relies on it: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/06/apple-governments-surve... https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/imessage_push_notificatio...