[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invas...
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       Ask HN: What do you intend to do about Apple's invasion of your
       privacy?
        
       For those --like myself-- who are upset about Apple's recent
       decision to share perceptual hashes of your phone's private content
       with a third party, what do you intend to do about it? Are people
       changing phones to opt-out, or installing custom ROMs?  It's been
       very heartwarming to see that a large part of the Hacker News
       community shares many of my concerns regarding what I feel is a
       very invasive overreach by Apple. For my own part, this has been
       the incentive to stop procrastinating and finally get myself a
       phone that can run a custom Android ROM. I know this doesn't solve
       all of the issues of privacy on mobile phones, however it is a move
       much more consistent with my ethics, given my own dislike of
       Google's business practices.
        
       Author : livinginfear
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-08-09 22:38 UTC (22 minutes ago)
        
       | slater wrote:
       | Nothing. Cos it's blown out of proportion.
        
       | patch_cable wrote:
       | Nothing. It doesn't rank high in my list of things I am concerned
       | about. It would be nice if there were other options to consider
       | besides Android, as I don't really care it as an ecosystem.
        
       | a-dub wrote:
       | i might buy an iphone. i read the materials they published and
       | think it's a fine bit of engineering that balances end user
       | privacy with abuse management for their hosted service. they
       | don't share hashes with anyone, in fact they never leave your
       | device, takes about 5m to grok that.
        
       | yuppie_scum wrote:
       | Objection! Leading the witness.
        
       | jdlshore wrote:
       | Applaud.
       | 
       | When I look at the alternatives (e.g., Facebook), I see pictures
       | being stored in the cloud unencrypted, where they can be scanned
       | for a match with the CSAM hashes.
       | 
       | Apple, on the other hand, is developing a system to scan for CSAM
       | matches client side, in a way that allows pictures to be stored
       | encrypted, and paving the way for full end-to-end encryption.
       | 
       | Assuming that scanning for CSAM is going to happen, which I'm
       | generally in favor of, Apple's approach is more privacy
       | preserving, and reinforces my happiness with their privacy
       | direction.
        
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