[buster]

Why is it different just because it's in your user account?

Everyone with access to your Mac can access it just as well, i assume. I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet? I don't have a Mac so i don't know the restrictions but i would consider it privacy information that i would like to know if and where it's stored. There is a reason you can delete your browser history. Or your recently accessed files list.

[fredsted]

> Everyone with access to your Mac can access it just as well, i assume

If they're logged on to your account, but not if they are using a different account.

>I guess it can also be read by applications, uploaded to the internet?

Not Mac App Store apps - they're quarantined.

[buster]

> If they're logged on to your account, but not if they are using a different account.

So, they are encrypted or how is that guaranteed?

[fredsted]

File permissions.