You can't opt out of Apple's own keylogger
every App Store search is logged letter-by-letter, with millisecond timestamps. Apple can compute your typing speed.
every search you type, timed to the millisecond, stored to your account
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/06/17/apples-app-store-search-data-stores-every-single-keystrokeOpen linkView original on leminal.space
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But, it's apple so que the excises for why it's not that big a deal
I wouldn’t be surprised if this feature could be or isn’t already extendable to the whole OS for the Feds
IDK... I'm not defending the bad shit Apple does. But they pushed back against both US and UK govs who were trying to backdoor their shit.
In the UK case, they pulled the entire feature rather than backdoor it for the Home Office. With warning for users, so ppl are not expecting to have encryption, w/o knowing it is backdoored.
In the US case, the US gov tried to compel Apple to create special versions of IOS with encr backdoors. The gov later found a 3rd party who was able to unlock the iPhone, and withdrew the demand. But a judge ruled that Apple could not be compelled to build a special backdoor version.
I don't like Apple. I don't use 'em. They have privacy probs for sure. But they also have pushed back lots of times vs gov attempts to force backdoors into iOS.
I think the first time I read about Instagram profiling typing speed/style to infer depressed users was close to a decade ago
Is there solid proof that it is used globally? Have technology experts conducted any research on it, or is verification simply impossible because they cannot inspect the code?
Its actually really easy to opt-out to all of these big tech features: don't buy from big tech companies. Or if you must, root them and install your own OS.