cm0002@literature.cafe to Privacy@programming.dev · 4 days agoUK iPhone users face over-18 age check to use services after updatewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up164cross-posted to: privacy@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareLytia @lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 days agoThey kinda were. Don’t get me wrong, still entirely by choice, but more and more countries and states are forcing OS level age verification.
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoHow things change. Once upon a time, Apple stood up to the FBI’s demands. Now they’re caving to an implication in an authoritarian foreign country.
minus-squareMac@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoApple pretended to stand up to them a couple times in high-profile cases for optics. They were helping them all along.
minus-squareLytia @lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoThere is, AFAIK, zero proof to back up your claim.
minus-squareIceFoxX@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agohttps://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/01/16/apple-and-the-fbi-are-closer-than-you-think/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/16/apple-educating-fbi-other-police-on-accessing-data-from-iphones-macs-icloud Lol…
minus-squareXLE@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoEven if true, I think I prefer when Apple was normalizing standing up to surveillance, instead of being the first to endorse it.
minus-squareLytia @lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoYeah, I agree. I just wanted to call them out because FUD has never once helped the privacy community, and I’m tired of people strawmanning big tech and making the comm look bad.
They kinda were. Don’t get me wrong, still entirely by choice, but more and more countries and states are forcing OS level age verification.
How things change.
Once upon a time, Apple stood up to the FBI’s demands. Now they’re caving to an implication in an authoritarian foreign country.
Apple pretended to stand up to them a couple times in high-profile cases for optics. They were helping them all along.
There is, AFAIK, zero proof to back up your claim.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/01/16/apple-and-the-fbi-are-closer-than-you-think/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/01/16/apple-educating-fbi-other-police-on-accessing-data-from-iphones-macs-icloud
Lol…
Even if true, I think I prefer when Apple was normalizing standing up to surveillance, instead of being the first to endorse it.
Yeah, I agree. I just wanted to call them out because FUD has never once helped the privacy community, and I’m tired of people strawmanning big tech and making the comm look bad.