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Andy's avatar

We all agree with and support efforts to fight crime. But the pre-digital equivalent of Apple's plan is this: a police officer enters your home every night, walks to the bookcase, pulls out your family photo albums, looks through page after page and runs comparisons with whatever he has in his database. These are your personal family photos: children playing, intimate moments with your significant other, embarrassing selfies, etc. The police officer keeps copies of all of the photos too. Forever.

Q1: How does this fight crime?

Q2: How does this not violate 4A ? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures."

Q3: What in the world gives the government and a private corporation the right to look through my family photos ?

When the government says "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" you gotta remind them that "privacy isn't about hiding, it's about protecting." And "the right to be secure in your person" is all about protecting yourself. If the government argues that scanning through my family photo albums and keeping copies forever is not an "unreasonable search and seizure" then maybe somebody should do something to stop this techno-fascism.

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libertate's avatar

I've been an Apple customer since the IIc and have had every iPhone they've ever made, along with too many other of their products to count.

I find it intolerable that they would presume to violate my privacy in this way.

It's been a good run, but I think it is time to begin the transition to an Ubuntu laptop and a secure phone.

Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave.

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