Apple Sells Privacy To Consumers. But It’s Quietly Helping Police Use iPhones For Surveillance. (www.forbes.com)
from JRepin@lemmy.ml to technology@beehaw.org on 12 Oct 2024 06:06
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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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ravhall@discuss.online on 12 Oct 2024 06:22 next collapse

Such bs. Read the article. They just want police to use iPhone apps.

undefined@links.hackliberty.org on 12 Oct 2024 06:50 next collapse

Yeah, this is pretty stupid. “Oh no! The cops use CarPlay??” and “omg they developed an iOS app, the horror!”

Hydra_Fk@reddthat.com on 12 Oct 2024 13:09 collapse

It’s a process pigs use iOS next they are selling icop robots and I drones are unaliving people.

wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 12 Oct 2024 14:16 collapse

Man this one of the most slippery slopes I’ve seen in a while.

There’s red hat linux being used by the government. When are we getting the red hat kill drones?

Also, military drones and robots already exist without apple markup and are being made with mostly consumer parts now, in case you haven’t been keeping up with the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Best just get prepared because if the police want them it won’t matter who sells it to them.

CedricMord@aussie.zone on 12 Oct 2024 11:24 collapse

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.

umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 2024 08:23 next collapse

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.

Hux@lemmy.ml on 12 Oct 2024 15:33 collapse

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)_/¯

undefined@links.hackliberty.org on 12 Oct 2024 17:38 collapse

“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.