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35 sats \ 3 replies \ @0308b86719 16 Jan 2023
Before assuming they're spying on you, this is probably downloading an AI model to support the new search-in-photos feature of Finder. So you can type "dog" and it'll find pictures of dogs on your drive, recognized using local ML.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @0308b86719 16 Jan 2023
The claim in this headline is completely unsubstantiated. The article claims that Apple never actually said they were killing their CP scanning plan, but they did say that, "We have further decided to not move forward with our previously proposed CSAM detection tool for iCloud Photos." Dec 7 2022
Here you have the only large US tech company that offers end to end encryption for all user data and you're spreading FUD.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 17 Jan 2023
When you open an image in macOS, the system makes an online request to an apple server. That is spying.
What you're saying can be achieved with a pre-trained model. No need to send data from your own files to Apple.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 4 Mar
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 17 Jan 2023
Apple would never spy on You! NEVER! Like Twitter et.al. never would try to manipulate elections or construct commie narratives. They really wouldn't do that... corporatism always has been a chimera of some stupid libertarians.
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25 sats \ 2 replies \ @l0k18 16 Jan 2023
Sharing the recognition matrix diff your data creates is still as good as sharing the data, just it isn't sharing the explicit bytes of your data, the recognition engine can still tag that update and associate it with you and later on that specific diff can be used to recognise images of whatever was in your stuff.
It's no different to the situation with NSA bulk surveillance and the introduction of TLS/SSL everywhere. Turned out that the metadata was more valuable than the data it referred to.
Unless they make this update uploading optional they are still spying on you.
Anyone who trusts a company that so clearly has such influence on legislation has rocks in their heads. And that goes double for a company that is friendly with the CCP.
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @0308b86719 16 Jan 2023
Where's the evidence that they're uploading user data of any kind to Apple? All the article shows is that a daemon on macOS is communicating with a server.
It could just be downloading an updated model. Or downloading configuration params. Or doing literally anything.
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 17 Jan 2023
It's talking to something. It's making requests. The software was already installed so either it's sending or receiving data related to the image recognition engine. I doubt it will be easy to grab the cleartext in memory too.
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25 sats \ 1 reply \ @PseudoRamdom 16 Jan 2023
Lol this is pure FUD. mediaanalysisd has been there for a decade to help with spotlight search. The author could at least investigate what is being shared
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 17 Jan 2023
AFAIK the code for mediaanalysisd is closed.
In any case, it's good practice to know when and why your own device is making connections to other servers in the world.
If you simply open an image in your local device, I don't see the need to have an outgoing network connection because of that.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 16 Jan 2023
не храню фото на телефоне..))) и тебе рекомендую)))
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