7mo ago

Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.

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Exclusive: Inside Apple’s Secretive Global Police Summit

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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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7mo ago

Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.

www.forbes.com /sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

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Jure Repinc @lemmy.ml

7mo ago

Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance.

www.forbes.com /sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

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In a quick read
What I expect to see: How apple enables police to invade our privacy
What I actually see: 3 apps that digitize paperwork and help police do thier job on iPhone, and CarPlay
Conclusion: It looks like WWDC but for the cops. It is nothing wrong to use iPhone or whatever phone to make work more efficient. It is a tool after all.

Such bs. Read the article. They just want police to use iPhone apps.
- Yeah, this is pretty stupid. “Oh no! The cops use CarPlay??” and “omg they developed an iOS app, the horror!”
  
  It's a process pigs use iOS next they are selling icop robots and I drones are unaliving people.
- I work at a company that is developing a carplay app for the police. All it will do is help them get to incidents quicker and make their and the diapatchers lives easier can confirm nothing spooky.

Forbes always has misleading, anti-Apple click bait.
When it comes to Apple-related topics, I never click on Forbes articles. Their coverage is inherently misleading, but that strategy must be generating click-through revenue. ¯(ツ)_/¯
- “21 Ways Your iPhone is Spying on You” and it’s always dumb stuff like shady apps asking for permissions mouth breathers are stupid enough to allow. Then their website has 14 trillion tracking scripts loaded up; hypocrites.

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