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Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance. (www.forbes.com)

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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.

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[-] goatmeal@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

This is about Apple helping build tools for policing. Not about giving over its customers data to police.

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

so, it's about something slightly less bad than what they normally do?

this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024

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