I'm on iOS14, so this morning when i click into iCloud settings, it prompts me to agree to new terms. Anyone here getting the same prompt? Any idea what's the difference? Could it be related to CSAM as iOS15 release today?
Strong arm tactics from Apple. User-hostile. They did it to me, too, while I was on vacation.
They shut off my Mail, Find My Phone — everything.
When I called to ask what was in the new terms, the representative told me that I needed to click "I Agree". When I pressed what I was agreeing to, they said I could read it myself. I asked them if they had read them or if they could summarize the changes. After several hours of talking to "senior advisors", nobody was able to give me any indication of what was new in the new Terms, but that I could read them myself if I wanted to.
Apple is saying that they'll shut your service off because they know they won't lose market share. Like what, will a few users do, switch to Android? Over what? Privacy? Pffft. Apple isn't worried about it.
So, after I got back from my trip, after taking care of more pressing issues, I finally got to read some of it.
These terms are terrible. If Apple suspects your content may violate its terms, such as by being "objectionable", they can ransack all of your content and share it with LE.
It looks like Apple uses third party services, though it's unclear, if they do, or what those third-parties' terms are.
V. Content and Your Conduct
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You agree that you will NOT use the Service to:
B. a. upload, download, post, email, transmit, store or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harassing, threatening, harmful, tortious, defamatory, libelous, abusive, violent, obscene, vulgar, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or otherwise objectionable;
"otherwise objectionable"? What the hell is that?
E. Access to Account and Content
Apple reserves the right to take steps Apple believes are reasonably necessary or appropriate to enforce and/or verify compliance with any part of this Agreement. You acknowledge and agree that Apple may, without liability to you, access, use, preserve and/or disclose your Account information and any Content to law enforcement authorities, government officials, and/or a third party, as Apple believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate, if legally required to do so or if Apple has a good faith belief that such access, use, disclosure, or preservation is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process or request; (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of any potential violation thereof; (c) detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property or safety of Apple, its users, a third party, or the public as required or permitted by law
I bought an unlocked phone so I could own it. Since all the services are moved to iCloud, it feels like Apple owns my phone. I tried to find a third party cloud service that offers privacy and covers apps like Calendar, Find My, and Mail, but found nothing.
Where can I find a privacy phone that *I* own? Where can I find a third-party cloud service that integrates with it?
I neither want nor condone snooping of my data, algorithmically or otherwise, by Apple, its minions, or any company or entity. I want a private phone that is mine, where I own my data and I choose what I share and with whom.
What options do we have for privacy phones and third-party cloud services that integrate with them?
