Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories.
Friday’s announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason Aten said that Meta’s new general-purpose AI agent Muse sent him an unsolicited notification referencing a thread between him and a co-worker over Apple Messages. Aten said he never granted Muse permissions to read his messages and had assumed they were off-limits. Social media last week blew up with masses of people who agreed and said the incident showed that AI assistants given access to calendars, emails, messages, shopping accounts, and other resources are akin to a skill saw or other power tool. While potentially useful, they can do real damage if not used carefully.
Well, I knew about the ass kissing to fascists part. I could say “that was the last CEO” but I’m willing to bet Ternus does more of the same. I think he is a little different in that he’s more of an engineer and less of a people pleaser, but Cook chose him for a reason.
The alternative is a phone that sells your personal information to advertisers. I’d rather have the iPhone as a daily driver. That said, iPhone has been stale for a while, and there are some interesting Android phones out there. I just don’t dig the defeatist “well I’m not gonna use an iPhone so I’m fine with Google selling my personal information.”
Dude Apple spies on its phone users as well. Pretending they don’t because they did some marketing as “the privacy oriented” option is taking their marketing as truth.
But I don’t blame you because there aren’t a lot of good options when it comes to tech. Or anything. Cuz we live in late stage capitalist hell.
I’m sure it’s unintentional on your part, but you’ve moved the goalposts. I never mentioned Google either.
I’m simply saying that Apple are a company worthy of boycotting. So are Google, and I find the binary choice defeatist, in fact.