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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I’m gonna play devils advocate here (and probably be monstrously downvoted);

ICEBlock stored the location data of all its users on Apples iCloud Servers. This the perfect target for ICE; a complete database of locations of every person who doesn’t want ICE to know where they are.

One assumption is that that Apple realised how tempting this data is to the current demonstrative administration and purged it before ICE could get their civil-liberty-abusing mitts on it.

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    You're giving apple too much credit. Tim Apple literally gifted trump a golden statue. The press are reporting that this is directly in response to a request from the DOJ. This isn't apple having a moral epiphany and thinking they're doing ice targets a favour. Corporations don't do that sort of thing unless it will make them $$$

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Alternate take: Tim is a businessman doing what's best for Apple and he personally might not support Trump, but we will likely never know.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    It’s an inherent byproduct of capitalism.

    If you rise to Tim Cook’s level you must be someone that is either willing to put your personal values aside or you do not have them to begin with. The growth of the company matters more and if you prioritize your values you will be filtered the moment you misalign with whatever prevents maximal growth.

    Capitalism does not care about values, ethics, morals, social wellness, or anything besides growth. It is cancerous and leads to a toxic society that poisons itself and falls apart, which is literally happening

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    You don't succesfully run big corporations by having high moral standarts, this was never an argument. Argument was about what makes businessman a good business man, and one major thing is seizing opportunities and "playing" important people like Trump. I don't think he's anywhere as (morally) bad as Steve Jobs was, but he's doing his job as expected.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You’re absolutely right. Economic motivations decide the trajectory a company may take. Ethics, green washing, queer rights and other factors take a back seat. If they come with financial benefits, the company will follow that path, but that’s always because of money—no matter what the marketing material actually says.

    Remember when companies were supporting sexual and gender minorities? That was because financial incentives aligned with that at the time. Remember when those turncoats suddenly scrapped the DEI programs and removed all rainbow themes? Same motivation again. Facade changed, but the foundation is still the same.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Something worth noting, if you are using iCloud, advanced data protection is your friend. Apple doesn’t have the encryption keys, you do.

    This is not on by default.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Advanced Data Protection does require all iCloud Ecosystem devices to be current.

    Not every person can afford the latest and greatest.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Current or on a current OS?

    Edit: I just enabled it and I have a iPhone 11 on my iCloud account.

    So, just latest OS.

    Which Apple gives you basically forever instead of maybe a year of old updates with android.

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