Apple has privacy in the forefront of its ecosystem.
What about uploading every photo to their server to check for child porn?
What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?
People really need to put down their “sheeple” glasses. Apple is a huge public company like all the others, beholden to profit their shareholders and thats it.
All that virtue signalling that they do is just a smokescreen. They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc…
You sure? I would be surprised if MS, Google and Amazon are the same when it comes to how they handle and use PII. Note that I say that "I doubt", because without having gone the length of issuing a GDPR right of access request with any and all of them it is more of a gut feeling based on personal experience than hard facts.
> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?
You are either being dishonest or misinformed. For one, they don't upload binaries. Secondly, the more important function is checking that it isn't known malware, and thirdly they also do not (no longer) log PII like IP address or user id when performing the check. [1]
I don't believe that's true. If you use iCloud it goes to their server but if you aren't backing up to their service they are not checking. What was controversial was they were going to check on the device itself so even if you didn't use iCloud your phone was getting scanned.
My understanding was macOS only checked the signature of third party executables before first run.
Windows may let you run it first, but any unknown executable (not just a hash, the file itself) gets sent to Microsoft by default. [0]
[0] https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...
Take a look at the processes or network traffic from any mac or iphone.
Prior to the recent advanced protection program, you could avoid that by not enabling backup for messages. Now you can choose whether data recovery is more important than E2E to you.