Apple on the other hand is collecting far more invasive data about keystrokes
Wait what?! Do you have any evidence of this or you just pulling this out of your butt?
Wait what?! Do you have any evidence of this or you just pulling this out of your butt?
https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/14/apple-differential-priva...
Good!
Hell given the amount of information people store on cloud, It might not even be a big deal.
But its not wrong to seek verification via peer review since they are making bold claims.
Can you imagine Apple claiming to implement a non NIST crypto and refusing to divulge details claiming security by obscurity. Everyone would cry bloody murder.
Apples behavior couldn't be further from theranos in this case. Apple is essentially selling kool-aid and you are drinking it.
Do you have any idea what kind of data google collects from Android users and stores as part of their profile?
I thought not.
Apple makes some bold claims about how they respect user privacy and don't create profiles across their whole system.
Could there be bugs in that causing it to be imperfect? Sure.
Could they just be deceiving their customers? Very unlikely given the number of employees who would need to collide in such a fraud.
Asking Apple to open their systems to enable this to be audited is as reasonable as asking Google to open-source the search algorithm so it can be audited for political bias.
Are you calling for that too?
And just to be clear - Google doesn't make any claims about not creating a detailed identifiable profile on each user, incorporating all the data across all their services as they see fit.
If you are going to accuse Apple of lying, the burden of proof is on you.
If Apple like Theranos claims to have developed "Novel Differential Privacy algo" / "finger prick blood testing", it ought to have its claims examined via peer review. The burden of proof lies on the entity making ground breaking claims.