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0 pointskrrrh5y ago0 comments

Except Apple does provide very detailed information about the sorts of data it collects, why it collects it, and how it uses it.

https://www.apple.com/privacy/

Its bundled apps do not track users across the internet, which is the crux of Facebook’s issue.

Just because Apple’s bundled apps aren’t on the App Store and don’t have the same nutrition facts scorecard it doesn’t mean that they aren’t communicating their approach to privacy loudly and in detail elsewhere.

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izacus5y ago· 2 in thread

The question is - is that shown next to iMessage with the exactly same dialog and messaging as for all their competing apps? Same UI location? Are Apple's first party apps treated the same as their competitors?

Because there's a difference between a big in-your-face popup and a website far away from the device actually running iMessage.

krrrhOP5y ago

Signal also doesn’t track your activity across the web and thus does not get any big in-your-face popup. You can also go to Signal’s website to read additional information about why that’s the case.

Apple isn’t really giving themselves a special dispensation here. Giving users additional information about how Facebook messenger (and others) are doing things that most users don’t expect is a service.

ben_w5y ago

I think a better analogy to illustrate izacus’ point would be:

"""The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."""

Apple have defined the rules, the rules which Apple have defined mean that Apple apps do not look scary while Facebook’s do.

Are those rules fair?

I happen to think “probably yes”, yet I am prepared to be incorrect.

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