> It’s truly disappointing that Apple got so hung up on its particular vision of privacy that it ended up betraying the fulcrum of user control: being able to trust that your device is truly yours.
Well said.
It's very easy to understand that content on a physical disk I own will not be scanned by some government-friendly surveillance program, and content I upload to somebody else's servers will. I am comfortable with [subsets of] my files existing on both sides of this distinction, but only because I understand it.
Now Apple is letting the surveillance apparatus reach into my own physical hardware, blurring the lines with some overwrought, proprietary crypto-gobbledygook solution. Given the details they've provided, I get why they might have thought this was in line with their general privacy ethos of keeping everything on-device, but the fact is that it is too complicated to build a reliable understanding of in my mental model of my own data privacy--and that's for somebody (me) who is quite technical and has even dabbled in crypto.
Now that I no longer understand Apple's practices as a steward of my private data, I can no longer trust them with it. It's a real shame.
Well said.
It's very easy to understand that content on a physical disk I own will not be scanned by some government-friendly surveillance program, and content I upload to somebody else's servers will. I am comfortable with [subsets of] my files existing on both sides of this distinction, but only because I understand it.
Now Apple is letting the surveillance apparatus reach into my own physical hardware, blurring the lines with some overwrought, proprietary crypto-gobbledygook solution. Given the details they've provided, I get why they might have thought this was in line with their general privacy ethos of keeping everything on-device, but the fact is that it is too complicated to build a reliable understanding of in my mental model of my own data privacy--and that's for somebody (me) who is quite technical and has even dabbled in crypto.
Now that I no longer understand Apple's practices as a steward of my private data, I can no longer trust them with it. It's a real shame.