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Apple Won't Collect Your Data For Its AI Services Unless You Let It (recode.net)
Apple doesn't like collecting your data. This is one of iPhone maker's biggest selling points. But this approach has arguably acted as a major roadblock for Apple in its AI and bots efforts. With iOS 10, the latest version of company's mobile operating system, Apple announced that it will begin collecting a range of new information as it seeks to make Siri and iPhone as well as other apps and services better at predicting the information its owner might want at a given time. Apple announced that it will be collecting data employing something called differential privacy. The company wasn't very clear at the event, which caused confusion among many as to what data Apple is exactly collecting. But now it is offering more explanation. Recode reports:As for what data is being collected, Apple says that differential privacy will initially be limited to four specific use cases: New words that users add to their local dictionaries, emojis typed by the user (so that Apple can suggest emoji replacements), deep links used inside apps (provided they are marked for public indexing) and lookup hints within notes. Apple will also continue to do a lot of its predictive work on the device, something it started with the proactive features in iOS 9. This work doesn't tap the cloud for analysis, nor is the data shared using differential privacy.Additionally, Recode adds that Apple hasn't yet begun collecting data, and it will ask for a user's consent before doing so. The company adds that it is not using a users' cloud-stored photos to power its image recognition feature.
Isn't everything ever spoken to Siri sent to Apple? Also probably stored to improve the algorithm ...
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
Despite being a Linux user for many years, I'm really beginning to trust Apple more and more each day. Unlike certain other companies, I know how they make their money from me: I pay it to them. I can see why they don't need to collect private information about me. I can see why they don't need to know when I urinate, when I defecate, how much of each I've made, and how they both smell. Apple isn't trying to advertise other companies' junk to me. They're just providing top-notch products. The higher-than-usual cost reflects how these products are better, and this premium helps avoid the need to collect and sell data. When the next edition of the rMBP hardware comes out, I'm going to buy one. I've had enough of Linux. I've had enough of systemd. Yeah, a Mac won't be cheap. But I'll trust it and its software more than I will the alternatives.
for facial recognition, but how about OTHERS, hmm? if it's in the cloud, and regardless of whether it's behind a password, you know damn well the data is being used by someone, somewhere.. probably deep in the bowels of washington, d.c.
Apple does not make collection of your data mandatory for use of its products and services, or even for them to be fully functional. They didn't base their entire business model around hovering up every bit of personal data possible and selling it to the highest bidder.
But it's probably inaccurate to say: "Apple doesn't like collecting your data.". If you're happy giving it to Apple, I'm sure they're happy to accept it. It's a nice bonus for them, but not a requirement for entry.
Imagine all the people...
so you are saying in IOS 10 I get to enjoy this:
Siri: I think you may to see hot naked girls with bananas and cream. Shall I show you?
Me: Umm, no Siri, I have no idea why would ever think I would want to see that.
Girlfriend: Glares and glares and glares
"Liberalism is a very noble idea, currently controlled by some very bad people. Be sure you do not get the two confused.
Unless you let it.
Or the Terms of Service change in a patch.
Or if they stop calling it data collecting.
So Apple says they'll do voluntarily what Google does only after having been forced and fined in the EU: Adhere to existing data protection laws, and at least ask for consent before selling your data? There used to be times when it was pretty common (around here) to not run businesses on illegal activities.
You're a naïve fool. Everything you need to know about Apple is demonstrated in the Chinese government allowing it to win in the smart phone market. They have most certainly caved to the government of China, and "Fighting the FBI in court" is, at most a publicity stunt.
Wow, It's obvious you don't use apple products. My MacBook sits offline 4 hours out of the day and has no problems Doing work. I have never once been forced to log into Apple servers in order to use my computer. Not once.
u need to login to apple to receive auto updates for os/appplocations. just because u didnt trigger a login doesnt mean it is not communicating session tokens in the background.
OH OKAY I BELIEVE YOU
Yeah who likes free money and power? That stuff sucks. I wouldn't like it either.
"it will ask for a user's consent before doing so." My hope is this won't have been tucked away in some 80 page long wall of legalese text that I had to click through when updating to said software version...
So Apple says they'll do voluntarily what Google does only after having been forced and fined in the EU: Adhere to existing data protection laws, and at least ask for consent before selling your data? There used to be times when it was pretty common (around here) to not run businesses on illegal activities.
You must be an Apple fanboy, telling us how Google is breaking the law and Apple isn't.
My hope is this won't have been tucked away in some 80 page long wall of legalese text that I had to click through when updating to said software version...
Every privacy related feature, if you submit an app to the store Apple checks that you have a good reason to request the information and rejects your app if it doesn't. And it rejects your app if it doesn't work (in a possibly reduced way) if the user doesn't give permission. Which avoids users having the choice of givning up privacy or not using an app, as in Android.
An app cannot use data considered private without asking you, and you can change the settings at any time in "Settings" under "Privacy". You will get for example a complete list of apps that can find the phone's location, and remove any app from that list.
Well for apps, yes. But in this discussion we are discussing Apple's operating systems and the feature therein, and whether Apple wants your data or not. When you try to update to a new version of iOS or macOS they present you with an agreement that you must agree to before they allow you to update.
"The way the system does that is by introducing random bits of noise into the data in known amounts. The classic example is a survey in which users are asked a potentially embarrassing question, such as whether they've ever used drugs. Respondents would be instructed to flip a coin without telling the survey givers how it lands. If the coin comes up heads, they are instructed to answer truthfully. If it comes up tails, they are instructed to flip again. On the second flip, if the coin comes up heads, they are asked to answer yes, if it comes up tails, they are asked to answer no - regardless of what's actually true.
Such a system protects individuals privacy, because no one can tell whether any individual is answering truthfully or not. But because the chance of a coin landing heads or tails is a known quantity, researchers can figure out overall the proportion of users that are answering truthfully and filter out the random noise. With a large enough data set, they can get a pretty good sense of what proportion of the population has used drugs without being able to tell if any individual has."
So Apple says they'll do voluntarily what Google does only after having been forced and fined in the EU: Adhere to existing data protection laws, and at least ask for consent before selling your data?
So you are saying Apple will voluntarily do outside (and inside) the EU what Google has been forced to do inside the EU but most certainly still wont do outside?
Of course news about a fake are Fake News.