At Apple’s secretive Global Police Summit, cops from 7 countries learned how to use Apple products like the iPhone, Vision Pro and CarPlay for surveillance and policing.

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.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die ( ulu_mulu@lemm.ee ) English
    69·
    2 年前

    Not just clickbait, the title is maliciously wrong.

    The article is about Apple holding developers conferences with cops with the purpose of developing apps tailored to them, there’s nothing about users privacy.

    A business trying to enter a new market, what a weird concept eh?

    • BearOfaTime ( BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ) 
      9·
      2 年前

      Took me several reads of the headline to start with.

      Then connecting it to the article contents, at least this is “accurate clickbait” (if there is such a thing). It actually describes what’s going on, we just interpret it differently initially because of current circumstance (which I suppose you could say is the fldefinition of clickbait).

      Still clickbait, but at least it’s not an outright lie like so many, just worded to make us want to click!

      I’m a bit chagrined to have been taken in by the extreme interpretation of the headline, when the milder interpretation (in a different climate) would be inoffensive.

      Ffs, how far have we come when I’m showing appreciation for a clickbait headline’s milder interpretation is accurate enough to not be a lie, but just attention-grabbing?

  • henfredemars ( henfredemars@infosec.pub ) English
    25·
    2 年前

    What exactly is the surveillance part of this article? So far it seemed like a normal application developer conference deal but the page reloaded and now I only get paywall. I found myself feeling rather unsurprised.

    Who would believe that a business as big as Apple wouldn’t comply with law enforcement requests in the first place? Of course they would when technically possible. They’re in the business of making money first, not defending you.

    • mbirth 🇬🇧 ( mbirth@lemmy.ml ) 
      19·
      2 年前

      Yep, the article is about Apple showing cops how to use the tech, what apps the police in other countries is using to support their daily work and the police evaluating the use of more Apple tech in their daily duty (Carplay, Vision, etc.).

      There’s nothing about spying on normal Apple users or Apple handing out your personal data to the cops in that article.

      Clickbait headline.

    • 4am ( 4am@lemm.ee ) 
      20·
      2 年前

      Incredible how many people skip the article and substitute their own reality before commenting.

      Article says nothing about Apple allowing law enforcement access to any user data.

      There has always been plenty to criticize about Apple, but some of you people see their name and just get so [TRIGGERED]

  • TheReturnOfPEB ( TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ) English
    6·
    2 年前

    The various police agencies in this county aren’t quiet about using surveillance that the STAZI would blush at. The newspapers and local bloggers refuse to push the issue with the police by asking questions or doing long term journalism for the effort is not TikTok-able.

    If citizens criticize the police online the police find them using digital tracking and then harass them IRL and online.

    The system is broken. And it makes the people that it breaks believe that they are noble for being part of the abuse cycle.

    The USA is in a bit of a pickle with privacy, guns, stochastic violence, and system decay.