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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 1 week ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] sus@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value

Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don't do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Yes. There was an issue with iOS 14.1 that enabled personalized ads by default if you didn’t restore from a backup. I was working for Apple at that time. It wasn’t intentional or malicious, and a hotfix was implemented as soon as the bug was identified. The lawsuit was just. Apple fucked up.