Think about it.. You don't even have to be an Apple user to be affected by this issue. If someone backs up their conversations with you to apple cloud, your exchange is now fair game. You get no say in it either.
We all lose.
We all lose.
Really, apps should encrypt their own storage with keys that aren't stored in the backups. That's how you get security/privacy back.
I think sender should just be able to send a recommended preference hint on retention and you could have an option to respect it or not.
Nothing an app does on a device guarantees you security or privacy if you don't trust or fully control the device.
This current demand isn't blanket access to your device, it's access to things uploaded to Apple's online storage service. Having to get a backdoor that works with every app's encryption takes a lot more work while running the data through an authenticated encryption algorithm is relatively trivial for a developer
In some jurisdiction, yes, legally, such evidence might not be probative, but you might still convicted because of it.
That’s quite different from turning disappearing messages on when you’re not explicitly under insteuctions to keep records.
I like signal and use it, but I already thought message retention was pointless. It seems at best a trusted informal protocol you can use with known parties but not something you can really rely on.
I don't want to share my contact details, but the second someone I know decides to opt in, I lose all rights to my own data as they've shared it on my behalf.
Maybe they have other info, such as birthday, home address, other emails or phone #s, etc. stored for me, which is all fair game, as well.
For Apple, privacy is one value prop. But seemingly smaller one than the UK market.