• utopiah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If the goodwill they garner from that makes APPL go up because it matches the privacy expectation they are branding themselves with, they might be making even more money anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. They are trying to win the privacy game, so a small sacrifice now could turn to be quite profitable.

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          1 year ago

          Partially, but also partially it’s legit. I generally don’t have much positive to say about Apple, but they make pretty things and the privacy is generally better than most.

          Of course, you pay through the nose for it.

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                1 year ago

                Audited for what? And I don’t think they have.

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                  1 year ago

                  Audited for what telemetry is transmitted from an iPhone or Mac during use, what information is possible to harvest by a third party app, and whether or not purpose-made experimental data is made available to advertisers.

                  It looks like no official (that is, authorized by Apple) audits have been done, at least that I can see. But privacy research firms have done it, and the consensus appears to be that Apple is not great, but better than Google, Amazon, and Facebook. For what it’s worth.