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by coldpie 2023 days ago
The article also claims the captured data will never be leaked:

> [Apple's privacy ad is] truly scandalous, but not for the reason Apple wants you to think it is: the way in which this ad depicts how your information is used — literally broadcasting your web browsing and searches and private conversations to those around you — is so misleading that it is hard to call it anything but misinformation.

It's like they have never seen any of the huge data leaks that occurred over the past few years, or that whole NSA data collection system. There is no such thing as computer security in 2020. If there is data on a networked computer, it should be treated as effectively public.

The article describes how privacy could be compatible with data collection in some perfect fantasy world, not the real one we inhabit.