At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit at its Cupertino headquarters, cops from seven countries learned how to use a host of Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing work.
This title seems kind of clickbaity. Most of the native apps are for querying existing government and police databases. We’re talking about accessing records via CarPlay, as opposed to using a bulky Window’s laptop docked in a center console.
Apple is still not offering governments a backdoor into encrypted content.
Apple is one of the biggest liar in term of privacy, juste watch some of their ads to see the “privacy focused” company as they said :
- https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=0HjDpPnxcP0
- https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=FbRUQRmvC4U
- https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=29eOe9L4KaU
That’s really a joke to see the apple logo at the end. They don’t about YOUR privacy, they car about THEIR profit.
Privacy =!= Protection from legal action
If you use your iPhone to conduct illicit business, the police can subpoena Apple and it will hand over your data (at least in the US).
Privacy in this context means preventing other apps from selling your data to brokers (e.g., location data) or using your phone information to do other stuff (e.g., AI training).
This is about Apple helping build tools for policing. Not about giving over its customers data to police.
The page won’t scroll for me. It’s just the badge and that’s it.
Do people actually believe Apple’s hogwash about privacy?
After reading the article, it doesn’t look like any of this contradicts what they’re been selling. Encrypted data is still locked down. IMHO, this title is fairly clickbaity.
A lot of this looks like iOS / CarPlay versions of policing / public records database software that was previously on platforms like Windows.
Oh, yes. Very much so.
I don’t assume they are perfect. But I do absolutely believe they are significantly better on privacy than any other major player in the smartphone space.
Even if you don’t pay any attention to their policies and programs, the mere fact that iPhones aren’t running an OS owned by an advertising company should be enough to demonstrate this.
