On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 10:43:52 -0700, Alan Baker wrote:
> What factual data?
FACTS
Notice that the apologists, like Flat Earthers, are immune to facts.
o Facts instantly _DESTROY_ apologists' completely imaginary belief system.
Notice that well informed adults show _facts_ backing up claims:
"The campaign is working, as evidenced by media reports depicting Apple
as hero to Facebook's villain. But that marketing coup masks an underlying
problem: The world's most valuable company - its market value crossed the
$1 trillion mark on Aug. 2 - has some of the same security problems as the
other tech giants when it comes to apps."
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/is-apple-really-your-privacy-hero>
*Apple is _brilliant_ at marketing the mere _illusion_ of privacy.*
o Apologists are as gullible as children believing in Santa Claus.
Look at this factual article from about a year ago (verbatim):
o Is Apple Really Your Privacy Hero?
o The world's most valuable company is seen as a champion for your data.
o It should be doing more.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-08/is-apple-really-your-privacy-hero>
a. Apple Inc. has positioned itself as the champion of privacy.
b. Even as Facebook Inc. and Google track our moves around the internet for
advertisers' benefit, Apple has trumpeted its noble decision to avoid that
business model.
c. Tim Cook said he wouldn't ever be in such a situation. He framed Apple's
stance as a moral one. Privacy is a human right, he said.
Clearly, my facts show that Apple MARKETS privacy, right?
o Now what about the actual facts?
HINT: Apple fibbed in their privacy policy which all the news media caught
(they called it a lack of transparency - but it goes _deeper_ as Apple
fibbed about the location data also, which the news media reported).
Remember, this article is from a _year_ ago, and yet, it's the _same_
problem as reported last week with unreliable transients listening in on
millions of accidental Siri recordings every day!
"It [Apple] has, in effect, abdicated responsibility for possible misuse
of data, leaving it in the hands of the independent developers who create
the products available in its App Store."
But wait.. There are more facts for an _informed_ adult to ponder:
"Bloomberg News recently reported that for years iPhone app developers
have been allowed to store and sell data from users who allow access to
their contact lists, which, in addition to phone numbers, may include other
people's photos and home addresses."
More and more in fact...
"the Notes section - where people sometimes list Social Security numbers
for their spouses or children or the entry codes for their apartment
buildings - is particularly sensitive."
More and more and more facts...
"When developers get our information, and that of the acquaintances in
our contacts list, it's theirs to use and move around unseen by Apple. It
can be sold to data brokers, shared with political campaigns, or posted on
the internet."
It goes on and on, in fact...
"Apple does nothing to make it technically difficult for developers to
harvest the information."
Note an informed _adult_ can comprehend these statements...
"Apple has the ingredients for a Cambridge Analytica-type blowup, but it's
successfully convinced the public that it has its users' best interests at
heart with its existing, unenforceable policies."
Now here is where Apple marketing is brilliant!
"The company's main argument for why it's a better steward of customers'
privacy is that it has no interest in collecting personal data across its
browser or developer network. It simply doesn't need to, because it doesn't
make its money off advertising. The public wholeheartedly agrees with this
´hear no evil, see no evil¡ strategy because of popular discomfort over the
quiet surveillance of private online habits by all the other
multibillion-dollar corporations."
But there are holes in that which Apple does NOT advertise but which an
adult mind can clearly ascertain to be a fact!
"But when it comes to the app developer network, that's like a parent -
in this case, Apple - claiming the developer kids are well-supervised.
They're not. Once Apple reviews and approves independent apps, it can't see
how the data they collect is used."
In a letter to Congress, which adults can comprehend, Apple abdicated all
responsibility for privacy...
"On Aug. 7, Apple responded with a multiple-page document that included
this statement: ´Apple does not and cannot monitor what developers do with
customer data they have collected, or prevent the onward transfer of that
data, nor do we have the ability to ensure a developer's compliance with
their own privacy policies or local law. The relationship between the app
developer and the user is direct, and it is the developer's obligation to
collect and use data responsibly."
Just as Google and Amazon allow _deletion_ of your private recordings, an
adult will realize that Apple allows no such privacy for Siri users!
Even Facebook has better privacy than Apple in that regard...
"For all of Facebook's privacy problems, it was at least able to alert
people who were potentially affected by the Cambridge Analytica leak. Apple
has no such mechanism."
In short, while the Apologists are immune to such facts, and while Apple
Marketing is brilliant at marketing the mere _illusion_ of privacy, what's
important for ADULTS to realize is the following set of obvious facts:
a. Apple brilliantly markets the mere _illusion_ of privacy
b. Where Apple, in some ways, is more private,
c. But where, in many other ways, Apple is no more private
d. And in some ways, Apple is far less private
All of which Apple marketing cleverly stays mum on
o But which intelligent adults can easily show to be a fact.
I realize these facts are lost on the Apologists
o Just as facts that Santa Claus is make believe is lost on children
Notice Apologists _never_ have facts backing up their imaginary claims
o They're like Flat Earthers - in that they're utterly immune to facts