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Apple Will Judge Call, Email Activity To Assign Users a 'Trust Score' (theinquirer.net)
Apple recently updated its iTunes privacy policy page, making mention of a "trust score" it gives iPhone users on how they make calls or send emails. The INQUIRER reports: "To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase," Apple explained. "The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers."
In practical terms, the Cupertino crew will only look at Apple account usage patterns and hoover up metadata rather than more personal, and potentially damning information. [T]he data collection and trust score assigning should help Apple better spot and dodgy activity going on in Apple accounts that aren't in keeping with those of the legitimate users. [I]t's not entirely clear how Apple will use the metadata to actually spot fraud, as it hasn't explained its workings.
In practical terms, the Cupertino crew will only look at Apple account usage patterns and hoover up metadata rather than more personal, and potentially damning information. [T]he data collection and trust score assigning should help Apple better spot and dodgy activity going on in Apple accounts that aren't in keeping with those of the legitimate users. [I]t's not entirely clear how Apple will use the metadata to actually spot fraud, as it hasn't explained its workings.
Telling the fraudsters how the score is calculated would help them game it.
It's not entirely clear how Apple will use the metadata to actually spot fraud, as it hasn't explained its workings
Apple keeps track of what you do so they can be alerted when you do something unusual.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Hey, Apple should call it a "social credit system". Maybe brand it as "iTrust" or something like that! The score goes up the more iProducts you buy, unless they get old, then the score goes down.
They're just like Google!
Glad I kept my startac.
And all is good. But for every purchase from Amazon, Google, or a competing vendor will cause you to lose some of your trust score. You don't want Tim Cook to not trust you, do you? You might get pushed back a few months in approval of buying that new iThingy!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Better look over your shoulder, and mind how you use your iPhone, because Your Score is being calculated. This is just a bit too much, and you know it will be gamed and spoofed. It's just another hit to your privacy. But no one seems to care anymore...
Google: Knows who you call, analyzed converted text of entire conversation, scanned every email for content and stored that on servers.
Apple: Doesn't care who you called just that you called 10k different numbers, Siri reads email to look for context and helpful suggestions, but sends no data to Apple servers to do so. It would send Apple a note if again, you had emailed 10k people in the last hour....
Now do you really want people to get away with mass spam/robocalling on mobile devices?
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This is frightening. Inexcusable.
I'll never buy an Apple product again.
You want to insult your customers by doing stuff like this, you Apple assholes ?
EAT SHIT AND DIE.
I didn't trust you much before, but there's none now. And there's nothing you as a company can do to repair it.
China is officially "communist", but they long ago learned what everybody else who tries communism learns: it does not work. China has kept the label "communist", but actually has gone fascist and is more purely that than any country since Mussolini and Hitler.
Consider:
1. They pretend to allow corporations, but in reality these corporations are tied to the ruling regime and may only exist as long as the regime approves them politically. Anybody who gets out of line politically will lose his position in the corporation (and possibly his life). The control of the society is mostly indirect and involves "businesses".
2. They no longer attempt to have government own everything, including the means of production, and no longer pretend to be trying to make everybody equally poor.
3. They have a leader for life instead of a leader who is periodically selected by a politbureau.
Mussolini, the creator of fascism, would embrace modern China and recognize it as his stepchild. Marx would be upset by it.
Apple, in embracing the Chinese government and obeying all its evil edicts in order to use its slave labor and try to sell into its markets, has done what most businessmen do in such relationships - embrace the evil in exchange for profitability. The very same Apple that refused to help the US govt on a terror case, happily embraces the actual fascism of China.
I'm glad there's no privacy concerns and we'll only debate the implementation details dispassionately. Aaaah, the good old times are finally back... Have a pleasant conversation. I'm off to take my dementia meds, soon as I remember where I put them...
So now Apple are going to be able to directly affect peoples lives entirely based on some undisclosed criteria made up in secrret by a bunch of hardcore liberals. What could possibly go wrong?
http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/...
Isn't that special?
Credit scores have been around for a long time. They aren't perfect, but they do a reasonable job of predicting whether a borrower will default.
Why do we feel Apple's move is creepy, but not TransUnion?
Maybe we could one day set our email inboxes to accept emails only from a sender with a trust score over some threshold. That sounds good to me!
I think not. That's something I can easily live without. No need for Apple either.
How long do you think it'll be before some hackers prove this data can be de-anonymized?
You are welcome on my lawn.
At least they're honest, I guess.
Never bought any Apple products and guess what.. I never will.
JOY!
Yet another reason to never give CrApple ANY money.
EVER.
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THANK GOD!!!
Black Mirror has to be the most overrated show ever. If you want a shorter, funnier and more insightful social media skewering Community did one.
If you have a crisis life event, you may suddenly be making lots of phone calls and need to make emergency purchases. Thats when your phone and card will stop working?
Apple is going to "introduce" in the west the same Orwellian "social credit" system they helped to build in communist China.
In China you cant travel, have a job, banks do not loan money and so if the "social credit system" what starts for everybody at 800 points "is too low because individual bought some beers or talked "bad things" in internet forums." It will be in full working order by 2020 as the Chinese media stated. They are going to install about 800 million cameras with real time face recognition across China, and will do areal time surveillance about persons online activity.
sounds like something china is doing. they have a social score and if works a lot like credit scores and has the same effect on their lives. is this what apple is really aiming for start small with emails???
The only think Apple needs to judge is the suppliers and their own engineers and PR people.
How are they going to judge me since I don't have, want, or use an iPhone? Oh yeah: poor. Or even: deplorable!
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
I am sure Apple has the right mindset on this. Cellular spam is at a all time high. But i think this sort of thing should be addressed by the cellular companies not handset makers.
This is a copy of China's "social credit" system. This is totalitarianism on display.
Apple is working more closely with China than I thought ...
It sounds to me like that means that Apple is going to seriously distrust nutcases like me... I use the gMail app exclusively for e-mail on my iPhone, and I rarely make actual phone calls, except for occasionally during my drive home from work. I mean, how could that possibly be "normal"? .... right, Apple?
That's why I use my own email client and server via an ssh app. Secure, and none of Apple's business.
I'm a sane person saying "Kill Your Smartphone"
To tied you up, spread eagle, butt naked on his bed, with your puckered butthole arched out towards him and a bottle of lub in his hand?
I didn't think so..
I took time to read all of the Apple Privacy items. Even though they say that they protect your privacy which they do to some extent. I was horrified when I read this and other items like - "We watch what music you play and what podcasts you listen to in order to predict fraud" Or something like that.
I had the new XS for one day and brought it back to the store.
It seems that it's impossible to trust Microsoft, google and even Apple now. I wish companies would stop screwing customers. There must be other ways to worry about fraud.
I think it's a good initiative from Apple to apply this type of security to protect the personal data of their customers ____________________________________________________ https://downloader.vip/minecra... https://downloader.vip/google-... https://downloader.vip/counter...