[KaiserPro]

> Go into settings and turn off iCloud for photos

if facebook did that, we'd all be up in arms, and if that was their answer to one's privacy concerns we wouldn't buy it (see tracking opt in).

I get what your saying, but the difference is trust. We trust apple to be private. We don't trust facebook. People are ambivalent to google.

> Apple is doing it to improve its apps for YOU

I mean yeah, you could argue that Facebook are doing the same thing. After all, if engagement decreases, so does advertising revenue. Much as my opinion is unpopular, I doubt facial recognition of photos has much advertising benefit, especially when the social graph is already mapped out for you.

All I'm asking is that we apply the _same_ level of scrutiny of features from apple as we do to facebook. Don't buy the narrative about Apple being friendly, they are a corporation that will deploy the lawyers at any opportunity.