As a privacy professional for many, many years this is 100% correct. Apple wouldn’t be taking billions from Google for driving users to their ad tracking system, they wouldn’t give the CCP access to all Chinese user data (and maybe beyond), and they wouldn’t be on-again-off-again flirting with tailored ads in Apple News if privacy was a “human right”.
(FWIW my opinion is it is a human right, I just think Tim Cook is full of shit.)
What Apple calls privacy more often than not is just putting lipstick on the pig that is their anticompetitive walled garden.
Pretty much everybody in SV who works in privacy rolls their eyes at Apple. They talk a big game but they are as full of shit as Meta and Google - and there’s receipts to prove it thanks to this DoJ case.
Apple want to sell high end hardware. On-device computation is a better user experience, hands down.
That said, Siri is utter dogshit so on-device dogshit is just faster dogshit.
At this point call your government representatives and ask for new laws, or if you live someplace with laws, actual enforcement (looking at you EU).
The idea that user behavior or consumer choice will change any of this is basically discredited in practice. It will always been cat and mouse until the point that CEOs go to jail, then it will stop.
(FWIW my opinion is it is a human right, I just think Tim Cook is full of shit.)
What Apple calls privacy more often than not is just putting lipstick on the pig that is their anticompetitive walled garden.
Pretty much everybody in SV who works in privacy rolls their eyes at Apple. They talk a big game but they are as full of shit as Meta and Google - and there’s receipts to prove it thanks to this DoJ case.
Apple want to sell high end hardware. On-device computation is a better user experience, hands down.
That said, Siri is utter dogshit so on-device dogshit is just faster dogshit.