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		sgammon on Dec 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 I am merely comparing homomorphic encryption, client-side vectorization and ML, and so on, to not doing those things. Nothing to do with marketing. Read the manual

RyanHamilton on Dec 29, 2024 [–]

>>Apple: Does backflips to protect your data

Yet they enabled this feature by default. Disabled by default would be easier than a backflip?

sgammon on Dec 29, 2024 | [–]

The feature is not unsafe in the first place, so turning it on by default grants useful functionality without risk.

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