> The company reiterated that Apple Intelligence relies on on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, with a promise that user data is only used to execute the immediate request and is not accessible to Apple or third parties. Apple added that outside experts can verify those privacy guarantees "at any time."

Yes, the "Apple needs to look at your data to do this, but we don't have any way to look at the data if we wanted to". That's impossible, unless they open souce iOS and let people take control over their devices, and let people self host inference, so people can check that there is no network traffic. If it is as they say, they could let people host it without any downsides.

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arbirk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

	▲	nl an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Apple's PCC is the best option for this kind of offload that exists. However the PCC root keys are still signed by Apple which requires you to trust Apple and the laws in the jurisdiction Apple operates in. Edit: for this update they seems to be running Gemini on Nvidia GPUs in Google's cloud[0]. How key management works for this part is unknown, but the standard setup for this is that Nvidia and Google would have keys too. It does use the OHTTP relay[1] which makes it hard - maybe impossible - for Apple to hand over the keys for a particular person's data. Maybe that provides some additional protection in US courts against overreach. Is this a problem for most people? Probably not - but it is something to be aware of. I think Apple have made a great attempt to make this as safe and private as possible, but until we have a truly trustless E2E encrypted execution environment I don't see how compute offload technologies gets around this problem. [0] > And to bring this model to production, we work with both Google and Nvidia to extend our Private Cloud Compute infrastructure to NVIDIA GPUs in Google’s cloud, while maintaining Apple’s unmatched privacy guarantees https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/08/craig-federighi-details-apple... [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9458

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ErneX an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

https://security.apple.com/blog/expanding-pcc/