Apple Just Gave Millions Of Samsung Users A Reason To Buy An iPhone

[Shirogane]

 

 

 

In a land far, far away, Apple made a huge statement this week that has serious implications for the battle that is about to intensify between its iPhone and Android alternatives, which at the premium end of the market, largely means Samsung.

“Some companies regularly scan personal information in the cloud,” Apple said, “to monetize the information of their users. Apple does not. We have chosen a very different path—one that prioritizes the security and privacy of our users.”

The statement was made in Australia, yet another market looking at pushing a surveillance burden onto tech providers to flag bad behaviors across their user base.

 

 

 

 

“Tools of mass surveillance,” Apple warned, “have widespread negative implications for freedom of opinion and expression and, by extension, democracy as a whole. For example, awareness that the government may compel a provider to watch what people are doing raises the serious risk of chilling legitimate associational, expressive, political freedoms, and economic activity.”

This is notable because it is the exact argument made by myself and others when Apple proposed device-side scanning for CSAM back in 2021: “Apple will be pressed into expanding its CSAM screening to look for other content at the insistence of governments where Apple sells its devices. In the past Apple has rebuffed such requests because they’re technically impossible. Well, that has suddenly changed.”

 

 

 

 

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