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Comment by zolbrek | Hacker News Reader

If you're the kind of guy who worries about the kind of entities who can ask Apple for information and get it, you probably should not be using an iPhone to begin with.

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I hate this response. Not wanting your belongings to leak private information about you is not a desire only elite global hackers have. It should be the norm, especially when law enforcement routinely abuses their authority, double especially when the third party doctrine lets them get the data without a warrant, and triple especially in the age of global mass surveillance.

This is all true, but then if that's your desire then why are you using an iPhone? The only reason this is an issue is because you can't control what random data an iPhone might send out.

It should be the norm, but it is what it is. I hate to have to give a response like this.

TBH your response ignored the actual inquiry. And the actual inquiry annoying assumed malice instead of doing a few minutes of research of why this change was made.

And you know the criteria used for data requests? Do you know whether by virtue of a piece of metadata whether I (an innocent) would be included in a data request?

If you can’t protect non-Tor users from wrongful classification by the government, then you dang well better protect the privacy of everyone, whether you like it or not.

This is a legitimate concern because this has actually nothing to do with Apple itself. Any app updating in the background can be impacted by this.

Unfortunately, this is due to API limitations.

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