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Data collection is not only bad because of advertising; that's the most visible annoyance to us, but I'd argue that the kinds of data collection that Google (and especially Apple) enable can be orders of magnitude more harmful (things like client side scanning of content, location tracking even with the phone turned off and these all-knowing AI datasets that are just a query away from learning the most intimate things about you).


> client side scanning of content

This only happens for photos that were going to be sent to iCloud where all photos are scanned server side.

It's hilarious to me that this feature which is actually a privacy win for consumers got so heavily criticised.


There is no privacy win in this feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28309202




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