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U.S. Senators Urge FTC to Investigate Apple for 'Transforming Online Advertising Into an Intense System of Surveillance'
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Held accountable because 4 idiot senators don’t have a clue what they are talking about? (And apparently neither do you) Yeah no.
One company can't stand in the US and say we are FOR privacy and will goto the cross to protect you and then turn around and burn others just for a profit. But they do.. sadly.
If I goto your home here in the states, I would be well behaved and thankful for what ever you offered. IF I goto your home in "x" country I would most certainly behave and be thankful for our time. I don't think it's right to change my behavior because you are from some place different.
So yea.. I generally have a good guidline how I would behave at anyone's home.
Let's see: Stanford grad; Rhodes Scholar; former Harvard Professor; Columbia grad. Sure.
I find it fascinating that there might be a perception that Zuckerberg is right wing. The Republicans have been really outspoken against the $400M+ he spent on what they perceive was democrat turn out the vote campaigns. Bezos' bought WaPo that leans fairly far to the left.
The mere fact that smartphones show geographical location might be basis of what they feel is surveillance. But as much as some people don't like this information shared to any 3rd party, it has been the basis of responding to people in an emergency.
You can shop without them however the cost is substantially higher.
You pay one way or another.
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Which privacy?
From advertisers?
From business orgs?
From hackers?
From criminal orgs?
From Governments?
From Nation States?
Each of these groups and our Congress-persons likely see these/themselves as different.
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That doesn't answer the question. The word "greedy" is a subjective, moving definition.Apple Leadership
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(Blame the consumers who don't see the same things)
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Think back to the early days of smartphones. The amount of data that could be potentially accessed and both Google and Apple were willing to dish it up utilizing this next gen tech. It was part and parcel of the Apple vs Google “war”. Data gathering via smartphone rapidly evolved from there to where we are now.
Bigger question is how or even if it can be scaled back or stopped.
It sounds like an Epic and others are behind this. Why no mention of m$ft? No Amazon no Meta?
I’m sure some people may not care if they get targeted ads or not and that’s their prerogative
Why do you think that they aren't working on the measures you flippantly listed?
They can't do both?
Something like this is probably easy to get through with comparatively little effort. Abortion rights, not so.
