Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.
Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."
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Esptein AI ware? What could go wrong?
@zackwhittaker I am so glad I never bought the Apple bullshit.
@zackwhittaker mostly marketing with some truth to it but of which a western marketing campaign in china they went belly up on the privacy issue there.
It's squared by the always superlative and overriding mantra that "profit is a fundamental Corporate/shareholder right" ...
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@zackwhittaker maybe they meant "we have a fundamental right to our user's privacy?"
@zackwhittaker I think the hypocrisy goes at least back to AirTags, which are actually awesome technology (I use them!) but which definitely create a public privacy hazard.
The principle at play seems to be that Apple believes in privacy for Apple users. They don't really care about the implications for non-users and the public at large.
@zackwhittaker we need another phone os and more phone providers
Aka real competition
@zackwhittaker Apple: “Your privacy is important to us. We want to find out what you are trying to be private about.”
@zackwhittaker unpopular opinion: Apple had that stance only because it's a market differentiator + they did not have the data analytics do otherwise.
@zackwhittaker I am quite sure they will uphold their most cherished value, over-profiting from fools, higher than other, alleged values or principles.
@zackwhittaker Jesus Jobs has long passed away, so no more rights to the peasants.
@zackwhittaker It changed my thinking about Vision Pro (which was somewhere along the lines of "useless and expensive") when I heard from blind people who were able to use it to cook from a recipe. I can't read the article -- not a Bloomberg subscriber. However, I can imagine ways that this could work with privacy preservation: E.g., if facial recognition only worked for people in mutual contact lists. That might be really helpful as an assistive device? I am not saying "give Apple the benefit of the doubt." They burned that when they banned the ICE reporting apps. But I can think of a way that it could work and respect privacy.
@zackwhittaker Like all other companies they mean the privacy of their paying customers.
@zackwhittaker 😖 Ugh! I'm so tired of this! Why?! We could have nice things!
@zackwhittaker Apple is a corporation and as such, doesn't have a stance, that was a marketing slogan. No more.
@happyborg @zackwhittaker That is probably true, but Apple knows marketing better than anyone. So my guess would’ve been they’d recognize the importance of doing things differently, the way they used to.
But things may have changed.
@zackwhittaker At the top, the only driver is "line go up".
Screw those principles, if the lounge doesn't go up they have other ones in a filling cabinet.
@zackwhittaker it is a fundamental right! They’re the only big tech company that doesn’t seem to poorly handle personal data. Are Google and Meta any better when it comes to data privacy?