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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u201cUnder His Eye,\u201d she says. The right farewell.
\n\u201cUnder His Eye,\u201d I reply, and she gives a little nod.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By now you’ve probably heard that Apple\u00a0plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system<\/a>\u00a0out to many of the more than\u00a0one billion\u00a0<\/em>iPhones it has sold, which all run the behemoth’s proprietary, take-it-or-leave-it software. This new offensive is tentatively slated to begin with the launch of iOS 15\u2060\u2014almost certainly in mid-September\u2060\u2014with the devices of its US user-base designated as the initial targets. We\u2019re told that other countries will be spared, but not for long.<\/p>\n

You might have noticed that I haven\u2019t mentioned which problem it\u00a0is that Apple is purporting to solve. Why? Because it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

Having read thousands upon thousands of remarks on this growing scandal,\u00a0it has become clear to me that many understand it doesn’t matter, but few if any have been willing to actually say it. Speaking candidly, if that\u2019s still allowed, that\u2019s the way it always goes when someone of institutional significance launches a campaign to defend an indefensible intrusion into our private spaces. They make a mad dash to the supposed high ground, from which they speak in low, solemn tones about their moral mission before fervently invoking the dread spectre of the\u00a0Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse<\/a>, warning that only a\u00a0dubious amulet<\/a>\u2014or suspicious software update\u2014can save us from the most threatening members of our species.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, everybody with a principled objection is forced to preface their concern with apologetic throat-clearing and the establishment of bonafides:\u00a0I lost a friend when the towers came down, however… As a parent, I understand this is a real problem, but<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy \u201cUnder His Eye,\u201d she says. The right farewell. \u201cUnder His Eye,\u201d I reply, and she gives a little nod. By now you’ve probably heard that Apple\u00a0plans to push a new and uniquely intrusive surveillance system\u00a0out to many of the more than\u00a0one billion\u00a0iPhones it has sold, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,31666,249,5570,652,765],"class_list":["post-59137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-digital-data","tag-edward-snowden","tag-mass-surveillance","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59138,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions\/59138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}