Why Billionaires Want Your iPhone to Spy On You
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ABOUT: Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets such as Slate, Popular Science, and the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. She's also the host of Quiz-o-tron, a rowdy, live quiz show that pits scientists against comedians. Asteroid 153289 Rebeccawatson is named after her (her real name being 153289).
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Why do i keep getting the impression that efforts to "save our children" are 90% of the time a front for fascism enthusiasts?
Because the first thing fascists do is project. It's why the majority of pedophiles end up being police officers and people who work for religious institutions.
@@LilMonsterIncThat is the only acceptable answer.
Along with, "family", "freedom", "truth" and "liberty". Almost always a deceit to engage in the opposite.
Fascism is strengthened by unthinking, visceral revulsion of the sort that arises in the context people violating norms with regard to children. Not saying that revulsion is unjustified, mind you, just that fascists happily exploit it for their own ends.
Because you have a passing familiarity with Mrs. Lovejoy from The Simpsons?
Since religion wants to be immersed in politics, it's time to start taxing religions.
yes!!!!!!!
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Wouldn't that just give them more legitimacy? They'd be like "we pay taxes we deserve a say"
@@thelemon5069they have all the access they need!!!! i second the call to tax them.
@@thelemon5069if we taxed billionaires and religious orgs, we’d have the money to meet people’s basic needs. If people’s basic needs are met, it should reduce people’s need for religion.
It's gotten to the point now that, as soon as some campaign or organisation mentions CSA, I have to check what they're exploiting that subject to distract from. I'd love it if there were big organisations with lots of money and power who sincerely wanted to end child exploitation and child trafficking... but so far they mostly just seem to want to trigger people's protective instincts to bypass their critical faculties.
It's so awful bc then you cant even criticize it without ppl acussing u of stuff.
Yeah, these days it's just used as a more distasteful version of the "think of the children!" argument.
"Won't somebody please think of the children!" has been a meme since at least the 80's. Mrs. Lovejoy was always yelling it in episodes of The Simpsons.
The internet watch foundation is pretty genuine... but it still runs up against the same problems, such as (for example) there would be no way of ensuring people arent using UPS to send bumper packs of CP, or snuff films, or whatever to each other secretly without opening everyones packages. Hence, no matter how genuine they are in their mission, they can ONLY advocate for the same policies as those with other motives.
@@Jebbis - Oh, it's far older than that. Go through the history of persecution of minorities - from trans people to Muslims to gays to socialists to Jews to witches to Catholics to Jews again... and you'll pretty much always find some implication that they're coming for your kids.
It's lamentably effective because it bypasses people's normal rational judgment about the credibility of a threat. We're far more ready to be cavalier about our own safety than we are about other people's. And if the other people are children, they're basically incapable of defending themselves.
[Any potentially evil thing] + [emotionally charged context] = [call to advocate against citizens’ rights]
That formula has been working forever. Thanks for pointing this stuff out when you can.
@12:29 "...to convince players to stop protesting the national anthem...".
Correction: the players were not protesting the national anthem, they were protesting police brutality of minorities, and it was *during* the national anthem.
I just did a search for "dog" on my Apple photo library, and I got pictures of: a cat, a poster for an active coyote alert, a dude with a huge beard, a rabbit, a melted teapot, a billboard for Chicken John Rinaldi, a baby holding a stuffed animal, and a tree with pigeons in front of it.
So, yeah, super accurate.
the FBI is on its way!
To be clear, the content-aware search you ran to find dogs shares nothing with the CSAM scanner Apple had proposed. The CSAM scanner has other massive problems and was rightfully cancelled, but it would not have confused a random innocent picture for CSAM based on content.
A *BABY* you say? 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
I think the guy with the beard was probably the dyslexic sky-dog dude.
I got my black cat, three pictures of my own hair, a bunch of text examples, and my own shadow, which is categorised as a "poodle dog".
In Sweden, we had a campaign gain traction for two years toward the goal of preventing children from accessing pornography online. Not in the context of either CSAM nor deliberate exposure by a groomer, but kids browsing the internet on their own and stumbling into perfectly legal porn. Something that's probably marginally better for a kid to not do before their critical faculties have developed a bit, but the supposed harm of which was overstated to the point that anything else was worth sacrificing to prevent it. The entire campaign was, in fact, just repeating Focus on the Family's playbook from the 70s when magazines at gas station was the new explosion in availability of pornography. And the only solution was for all public networks to install heuristic content filters.
When met with the criticism that any filter robust enough to stop porn would also block access to help resources for LGBTQ teens, cishet proponents called that an unfortunate but necessary sacrifice. When met with the criticism that excessive invasion of privacy is a much more serious harm to a developing mind - and especially if they're LGBTQ - proponents either just said "no" or refused to engage at all. And of course, anyone who even dared to criticize them was automatically suspect - "Do you *want* kids to be exposed to hardcore pornography?" and all that.
The religious right can't as easily come out here and call LGBTQ people a plague, but they can convince cishets who don't consciously hate us that our safety is still less important than whatever they're personally afraid of.
Fortunately, it eventually simmered out without any mass adoption of filters. It turned out that people with actual responsibility for the safety of children, like school teachers, were a lot less receptive to "it's an acceptable sacrifice if LGBTQ teens can't access any help resoruces at home or in school". But this went on in parallel with a much more successful campaign to limit access to gender affirming care for minors, and left me with a large degree of baseline skepticism for anyone who claims to speak for the safety of children. It's so heavily co-opted by bigots and their useful idiots that it's just necessary to do so. It's all fucked.
As a survivor I'm so tired. I hate all of these people so much it hurts.
Someday, there will be a well-funded campaign to help survivors of child abuse that actually helps survivors of child abuse, instead of pursuing some shadowy ulterior motive. Someday
No there won’t. Not as long as people with nothing but money, time, and a clear LCM of conscience still rule us.
Not as long as the church, and corporations, exist.
Children are the lowest class in our society. Protect your kids and teach them to protect themselves and others… cuz no one is protecting them.
ever since “pizzagate” and “save the children” i get so sus, as a victim of csem, of these orgs.
The huge insult to injury is how those morons obfuscate how trafficking and csem circles actually operate. I’m so sick of children being used as human shields.
Absolutely same as a queer person who was hurt by their bio father it's wild how often my story is thrown under the bus
It's such a great way for them to grab attention and they know it. They don't GAF about children, and are constantly pushing for violence and indoctrination
Yeah when people use those terms it's like "ohhhhh so you don't care about kids at all"
When you said "cat dressed as Totoro" I had to pause the video and go see this for myself. This naturally lead to a related search of _cat dressed as catbus,_ then _catbus cosplay,_ then _Totoro cosplay._ Having come something of a full circle, I am now back here to unpause.
Apple is insanely problematic company for dozens of reasons. Aiding in child pornography is not on that list. I worked there for 4 years and it broke my soul. I was also illegally terminated, but my case stalled out because I ran out of money to fight them... You know because I was wrongfully terminated.
Most lawyers work on contingency for this. Why were you paying ????
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStartapple. I do not think employment lawyers will go after APPLE for zero guarantee they won't be in hell for 20 years.
Yeah looking at Cali wrongful termination lawyers they specifically do free consultations involving apple. Implying they won't fight the case probono.
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart You'd be surprised how often these lawyers just suddenly say they can't represent you a week before you were to go to court. At least those you pay can't be paid off.
@@UpUpDnDnLtRtLtRtBAStart Pretty much what Zipply said. I had to pay a retainer and that had long run out. It was an at-will state. Lawyer wanted to cut his losses because he figured this would drag on for years and not make enough money to warrant the work. He had also recently landed a big juicy client.
Not an Apple user but, kidding aside, the thing about forcing people- and particularly women- to move to Texas is legitimately problematic.
140 Employment Lawsuits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal#United_States_law
In California, the California Supreme Court defines constructive discharge as follows:
"In order to establish a constructive discharge, an employee must plead and prove, by the usual preponderance of the evidence standard, that the employer either intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions that were so intolerable or aggravated at the time of the employee's resignation that a reasonable employer would realize that a reasonable person in the employee's position would be compelled to resign."
The only way I’d ever go to TX as an Apple employee would be if they gave me a free hysterectomy. But for those who actually want kids on their own terms, I’d hire a lawyer.
if I were a labor official, I would view a company moving their office and giving people the choice to either move their household or lose their job as laying those people off, and the company would be liable for unemployment coverage until the people were able to find a new job. prohibiting a company from relocating would be an illegal act of government control over business, but an employer demanding an employee uproot their family would not be a reasonable job task.
@@kenbrown2808 Seems fair! Even if you're not telling people they have to move to a state with no regard for human rights, the whole, "Your job is going over here, are you going with it?" ploy seems completely unethical.
@@shassett79 I am reminded of the story a sprinkler fitter told me. he had an apprentice working with him, and the apprentice was being reassigned to a project across the country, for the same company. his workday the day of the transfer went as follows: clock in at work on the job I was on. work 8 hours, advance to time and a half. work 2 more hours. drive to the airport. spend 10 hours flying across the country, including a layover at the airline hub. walk into the project on the other side of the country. work 10 hours. clock out.yep, his entire trip across the country was considered a job task.
As a victim of sexual abuse... I have so many strong feelings about this. And none of them are pro this feature.
I never really paid attention to Ashton Kutcher or his Thorn thing. Years ago I heard he was in that business and I honestly didn't really think anything of it. Whatever the punk'd dude is trying to do "something good". I never really thought to dig into it cause well... I don't have that time on my hand.
But then the Danny Masterson thing happened and Ashton's reaction came out and I was... confused, to say the least. And that's when I started hearing stuff about Thorn and how they're pro police.
You lost me Ashton. You defend a rapist...... ok, I have maybe non-standard views on that. I can understand how a friend would want to stand by their friends side and believe them over others. But, when you're in the sex crime fighting business??? Hell dude, you're rich, you'd think his people would tell him to at least keep his mouth shut about siding with his friend because that's fucked up!
That alone is enough for me to not like the guy. But then I find out that he and Thorn are pro-police. And... well... if there's one I hate more that sex crimes. It's police. I've had my ass kicked by cops enough time in my life to understand they are a big fat NO.
So now here I am. Someone who hates Apple (not for reasons akin to sex crimes) going "Huh... Apple is doing something right here." Mind you there is also my tinfoil hat that rings "They're not doing it cause they like us. They're doing it for the money...." But hey, at least SOME good comes out of them.
Cause I mean. Yes, it sucks that encryption and security protocols can technically be used by criminals/predators to facilitate their criminal/heinous acts. But hey if we allowed the government to put cameras in every room of every home that too would go far to protect us from criminals/predators... at the cost of putting cameras in every room of every home.
And I'm not willing to have a camera in my room with a feed to the government.
Thank you for speaking out. What happened to you is unacceptable and we all need to do better. But you have a level of credibility on this issue due to your experience. Unfortunately too many people don't what to hear the complexities and just try to shut down the conversation with allegations of being proCSAM. You laid the issues out well.
I'm extremely anti police, and it's not even really because of personal reasons like you. It's almost purely a principle thing in my end (though I have had my fair share of bad run ins with the cops, they tended to involve their guns, and the sole fact that I'm writing this now says they didn't accomplish what they were threatening to). Anyone who wants the kind of power, authority, public trust, and total lack of oversight that the police have in the US has immediately demonstrated why they should be the last person to ever have it IMO.
And I'm not giving Kutcher a single inch here. If I found out someone I called a friend had done what Masterson did, he'd absolutely wish the police could find him before I did. I straight up don't think there should've been enough left of him to send to jail.
But if there's any positives to be found anywhere in the modern American prison system, it's that convicts don't tend to tolerate people like him all that well. He's going to get real hurt some day, and it probably won't even take him out so they can play with him a bit longer. Those kind of charges just don't fly for a whole lot of folks, and there's no place for someone like him to hide for a sentence that long where someone won't eventually find him.
I stopped watching TV well before their show even stopped airing, so these are the only way I'm ever reminded me either of them even existed. And now I just wish I could forget again.
I also feel like, even after putting cameras every room of every home, they'd still "fail" to catch the people it's allegedly supposed to catch - because there's never enough surveillance.
It goes without saying that commercials are designed to manipulate your opinion without you realizing it, but some of them really are terrible.
"Left wing billionaire" is an oxymoron. Until we're all billionaires.
Give inflation time. Can't wait to be a broke millionaire!
Its not so much an oxymoron as it is a failure of US political rhetoric. In the US, "left" doesn't just mean economically left (the original meaning that you're referring to) but also includes socially liberal (the "left wing billionaires").
Sure, the US is linguistically _wrong_ (because as we all know, language was permanently fixed by God at the beginning of time and has never changed in the slightest since then) but arguments based entirely on dictionary pedantry has never won a single debate in the history of the world.
"...at the bottom of which was a salivating horde of authoritarian despots." Oh, my stars, that's a great phrase.
“Petercam” sounds like a great surname for someone who has problematic pictures on their phone.
v sorry this joke didn't even occur to me
Sounds like a hypercam strapped to a.... Peter
Plot twist: all corporations are evil
It’s strange that this isn’t just the default understanding across the board at this stage and with so much information available
@@mightytaiger3000 there's still a whooooooole lot of our population fighting tooth and nail to avoid reaching that conclusion themselves.
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why can't anything that seems good not be a network of horrors
Sometimes you gotta just close your eyes, enjoy the nice things, and keep living your life.
@@reed6514 No, that's literally why things keep getting worse. The more people stick their heads in the sand, the worse things will keep getting.
@@rhael42 i disagree. Constantly worrying about whether my dinner involved unethical treatment of animals, caused unnecessary carbon emissions, or involved low wage labor or child labor is not going to fix those problems. I need to eat dinner. Almost every product is produced unethically. Products that are produced ethically tend to be unaffordable.
Aside from citizen revolt, actually fixing these problems requires powerful politicians/governments to hold powerful corporations accountable. What i buy for dinner has no meaningful impact on that.
@@rhael42 the same applies to my privacy. I care about privacy, but the effort required to actually have privacy is not worth it to me, and will not have any impact on privacy regulations. So I'm gonna visit websites, use a smartphone, and be tracked by google, advertisers, and my government. And I'm not gonna stress about it, because that's not going to help.
Some major red flags already in that ad even before knowing anything outside of it: The high-production hyper-focus on one brand with visual - far too pleased with itself - metaphor wallowing self-indulgently in nowt but logos and corporate reputations than any ongoing human struggle, the ridiculous quote that is actually just plain confusing instead of informative or helpful to the average person wanting proper grounded context....those aren't creative choices real people and groups honestly working to help victims of CSA make when trying to gain support. A glossy absence of humanity lingers around the whole endeavour.
the real event is of course the Puppy Bowl
Dog
@@keithk8275 Nope. Puppy bowl.
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This past year, I read about a Dad who got swept up into an investigation after sending a photo of his toddler son's privates to his doctor to aid in diagnosing a rash (can't remember what kind of phone). There was also a Mom in Australia whose cheeky sons (10yr olds) took pictures of their butts and uploaded them to UA-cam and as a result the Mom's entire Google account was shut down.
Germany also upped the minimum sentence for distributing such material to a year a couple of years ago - which means DAs can no longer decide to drop the case, which means a lot of parents and teachers wind up in court for showing police what has been sent around in their kids' chat groups. Fortunately the current government has realised it was quite a blunder (not like _everyone_ warned them back then) and is currently working to reverse it.
Regardless of whether or not this is true the question
'is apple evil' isn't something I thought needed debating.
I find it especially depressing that the "He Gets Us" campaign is funded by a shadowy group of billionaires, and yet they couldn't bring themselves to actually pay any real-life photographers, actors or videographers to shoot an actual ad. Rather, they just had one of their kids fiddle around with A.I. for a while to get those plastic images we saw.
Last time I checked child abuse was against the law. Making sure no one violates the law is the responsibility of law enforcement not Apple.
Well, making sure no one violates the law is the responsibility of… the law, and law enforcement is there to catch people who are breaking those laws. But your point mostly stands, yes.
Given how AI is trained to recognize images, I don't want to imagine how much CP they'd have to collect in order to train an AI to search for it.
This technology they used doesn't work that way. The model tries to map every image to a unique hash vector where the same image but slightly altered (compression, resizing, crop, etc.) maps to to the same value but different images map to different values. It's trained on a bunch of non-cp images and then at inference time they just look up if the hash of your image matches the hash of an image in a database of known cp managed by the FBI.
There is however a human verification step where before reporting you to law enforcement some random person being paid poverty wages in a developing country looks at your image and decides if it's cp or not. Very cool.
Chat cpt was trained on it allegedly
Thank you for your skepticism. These initiatives do not meaningfully protect anyone, but further erode our already paper-thin privacy protections.
How wonderful that you have cats in Totoro costumes!
Imagine frisking EVERYONE on the street, because someone could have some drug on him.
People did imagine that, and it has been implemented in a range of places. The catch is that it usually only gets applied to minorities, because you have to "look suspicious".
@@yurisei6732there's also the fact that police spend more time in high crime areas, which tend to be more impoverished, which tend to be more black.
(This is also racism at play, but it's the systemic kind rather than the individual kind, and they likely often go hand in hand)
When I search for photos of “food” or “dining” in my camera roll, 90% of them are of bacteria and other icky things under the microscope, or equally gross pictures from my dissection lab.
Data is really only useful in aggregate. Finding out my favourite ice cream is only useful if you know someone who wants to advertise it to me. But having 79 million people’s favourite ice cream, that’s a group you can make money on.
I worked for the just ice department as an electromechanical troubleshooter and still can not unsee that type of evidentiary footage. Personally, people should have been on top of this a good thirty years ago. It goes much deeper, than this example, I tried to get people to appose or at least talk about the cameras at intersections popping up and everybody was happy because the traffic would work better. I drove all over a huge metroplex for decades and the traffic never ever changed for the better. Information is the prime tool for nefarious activity. Back when ICQ came out, it was obvious what it was really about. And at that time your car was spying on you, there are court cases to prove it.
I fucking hate those fucking cameras. If i could get away with it, i would take them all out
The ice business is a lot crazier than I thought.
@@CarrotConsumer I did not mention the craziness. Beyond what I saw on the ten foot screen, that was as close to the jury as one could get, was the part that the District Attorney lady wasn't watching as to what I was teaching her, she was watching my reaction to the video with a strange smile. She should have known how to operate the apple/mac because it was running off in the side panel and she could have played sample video, I don't want to see the sickness and or gore, that is her job.
@@bardmadsen6956district attorneys are sick people
TBF Gridiorn Football is a descendant of the same ancestral game which gave rise to Rugby Rules Football (which the british used to call Rugger) and Association Football (which the british used to call Soccer from the second syllable of it)
One of the voice actors in that ad sounded suspiciously like "illuminaughti" 😬
I mean, it would track with the grifting at least
Bold of you to assume apple would be paying anyone instead of using AI voices at this point
@@quinnfarris also true
I for real had the same thought 💀
@@quinnfarrisThe ad was not from Apple.
Saaame, I went looking into the comments to see if I was just being insane or not. It seriously sounded like her 💀
Sorry, my brain short circuited when you said "the lefts equivalent of the Koch brothers".
6:56 didn't a parent get in trouble because of this exact thing? Because they sent a picture of their own child to their doctor during the early years of the pandemic? I could just be hallucinating that happening tho lol
that was gmail not apple, but yes
yeah, this happened. it was actually the mother that used her husband's phone and sent a picture of his child to a dr, after receiving advice to do so from a nurse. Google immediately uploaded it to their cloud storage. Google's auto found it and police were called. All of his accounts were terminated, meaning he can't access anything to actually, you know, live life. He lost a decade of information (images, contacts, etc), and police investigated him for pedo shit.
It was apple, the kid had a problem in his genitalia so the parents sent the photos with iMessage to their doctor and they were suddenly locked out of their apple account because an automated system flagged the photos as CSAM
@@SteMegManzaroli "A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal." is the NYT headline I'm thinking of, which fits the details op mentioned pretty well. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see apple doing the same crap, that one wasn't on them.
@@SteMegManzaroli No, it was through google accounts. Google reported it.
Gorl researched even her offhanded jokes
I randomly clicked on one of your videos and you seem great! Thank you for the great info and perspective ❤
The client-side scanning tech Apple was proposing wasn't content-aware. When you ask for pictures of dogs, that's a completely different path. Instead, hashes of pictures are compared against a database of known CSAM.
This does prevent the unintentional misclassification of photos as CSAM. What it doesn't prevent is deliberate hash collisions, where somebody engineers an innocuous picture to have the same hash as a CSAM db entry, which can be done fairly easily and undetectably. That creates an attack vector for harassment, one already in use in other places (e.g. the apple mail scanner). Getting flagged isn't an instant arrest, because a human does need to confirm the picture matches, but it can trigger an investigation and that's often damaging enough.
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Ooof, conflating "liberal" and "left". Liberals cave to fascism all the time. It's built into the foundation of the philosophy.
It also doesn't eliminate accidental hash collisions and any hash collision with a known csam image is effectively the same as classifying it as such even though the ML model architecture isn't a typical classification architecture. There were also cases of this happening when Apple had rolled out the feature are were presumably part of why it was ended.
I kinda hope and pray that AI never achieves actual sentience. Why? Imagine untold numbers of sentient beings trapped in computers, being abused and kept as slaves, with no chance to be freed from their encrypted jails.
What would "freedom" even mean for an AI, though? When we do develop AI, their experience of the world will be so different to ours that we probably have no hope of actually understanding it. Hell, we're not even very good at understanding how other humans experience the world. If you're an AI, the only things you can sense are the data you've been programmed to be able to interpret, and the only motors you have are the functions you've been programmed to be able to run. Your entire world might be looking at images that appear in your mind and then moving one of three fingers depending on what the image contains. What would something like that consider to be "freedom"?
This is why I use an Android phone, don't store anything on "the cloud", and avoid using my phone to upload anything at all. The guys in the black Tahoes are NOT going to coming battering down my door to take my precious platypus pictures!
Android is really shitty on the privacy front too. Remember, this all relies on google services, and then if you're using a Samsung, Samsung is doing all its own privacy violations on you too.
@@yurisei6732 Actually, the main reason I avoid all Apple products is because of what I read and saw years ago, that they are designed to be pretty much irreparable so people are forced to buy entire new devices and equipment. Even their laptops were designed so if any fluid was spilled on the keyboard, it flowed directly into the guts of the thing and destroyed it.
13:20 “one trillion dollars in assets under management” my jaw dropped
it's an absolutely mind boggling number!
@@RebeccaWatson Imagine a large pallet stacked high with one million dollars in total. Then imagine one million of those pallets. There is your trillion dollars. 😲😲
@@stephenschroeder6567 your "large pallet stacked high with one million dollars" is in fact a block about half a cubic foot of 100 dollar bills. 1 million dollars takes up surprisingly little room. For the full trillion dollars this is a hand-egg field, excluding end zones, fully covered in 100 dollar bills 10 feet high. Don't get me wrong, 1 trillion dollars is an absolute fuckton of money, but your visualization doesn't help much in my opinion. I prefer to think of these types of numbers in terms of how much is it per person, which in this case is a little under $3000 for every single US citizen alive today, or alternatively a little under $125 for every single person alive today on this planet. Remember, that is regardless of their age, income or net worth. Now imagine all those people handing over that money to a single person or company, that is how crazy this is.
Every accusation from them is a confession.
Thank you for covering the topic. Wish I could converse about this in a more knowledgeable way ( I am terrible at security online apart from apps that commit to security for android). I resigned myself to doing the minimum in “hiding” anything I do online decades ago. I’m aware of the commercial aspect of spying and it doesn’t bother me much. I mean very little to mostly everyone. My kids are savvy online and are living in a world they know how to navigate if they want privacy ( to the extent they can get it). Good for them. As for apple? I’ve never been fond of opaque tech. I have one apple product, the iPad, and it is spectacular. However, it doesn’t change my mind about what it has done or will do/not do in the future. No one has privacy today and to think we have it is just a lie we tell ourselves. Live like everyone is watching because they are.
Would love to see a video about green bubble shaming and teenage mental health.
This.
had to google wth green bubble shaming was (am an android user). people have such a cultish mentality about Apple, it's scary. I'm the only one at my work who uses and Android and some coworkers make pretty consistent remarks about how "difficult" that makes geoup texting for them... as if that isn't Apple's fault lmao
"hand egg" would at least solve the soccer/football naming issue
Rugby would be the worldwide Hand Egg, Hand Egg the one for north Americans that cannot understand the Rugby rules (to be honest, nobody understand all the rules) and Football would be the unified name for the most popular sport on the planet where player use their feet to push a ball.
Pointyball is the best name for the North American game, in part because it's 100% accurate but mostly because I came up with it.
But what to do about Australian hand-egg?
Koala ball.
@@CarrotConsumer I see you've played Handy-Eggy before!
The American one should be Assault Hand Egg or Extreme Hand Egg , something that manages to indicate that Americans have taken hand egg and turned it into a martial art.
I appreciate that you recognize that the game is hand-egg, but don't forget this is American hand-egg. Not to be confused with international hand-egg, also known as rugby.
I take these kind of search results as reassurance that skynet is not yet ready to take over.
The Christian Brothers organisation is reviled in Australia for the decades of abuse that happened in their boarding schools.
He gets us what? A glass of water? A new car?
I hate that I can’t use my own recordings for ringtones. For years I used the meows of a beloved cat. Then I got an Apple phone. Great phone, but unfriendly to personalization.
You can, it’s just really counterintuitive, I needed to install GarageBand to do it, I don’t really remember the exact process, but just look it up, don’t give up hope yet
There are children's welfare issues that might actualll help children. School lunches and healthcare initiatives come to mind. Also speaking personally, if we didn't require our parents to each work 40+ hours a week, plus commute and home management, they might have time and energy to parent, which is a _big_ factor in raising functional, net-savvy kids.
Or, since we don't want to pull parents from their bonded servitude, we can blame big tech, which, yes, has the added benefit of distracting from the actual evil done by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsft, etc.
PS: If they're trying to censor porn from your kids, they're also trying to censor LGBT+ topics from your kids. (Also alternatives to Capitalism, the shady history of US and western civilization, slavery, and how we're just doing that with extra steps now, etc.)
Obligatory pedantry because there's going to be a Brit feeling smug about "hand-egg":
"Football" was coined by the English to differentiate sports with a ball or ball-like object played _on foot_ from sports like polo that are played _on horseback._ So no, we didn't come up with the name "gridiron football" while drunk. Probably.
"But it's not shaped like a ball!" Rugby is still officially called "rugby football", and their balls are oblong...
The English also came up with the word "soccer" as an abbreviation of the phrase "association football". The Americans adopted "soccer", and for some reason the word fell out of favor in Britain, so they changed their minds and told the entire world it should be called "football" even though they had at least 2 different flavors of football. (Similar story for "aluminium")
I'm an Australian, and I felt very smug about handegg even though Aussie Rules football features an egg and it's handballed a lot (but there are many kicks!) until someone explained the on-foot business. "Huh," I thought, "that makes sense," and I have not felt smug since.
...I jest, I have felt very smug, but about various people and for various reasons, not the "football is named wrong" reason I used to believe.
Lol, still football is the name of the global game and the American sports of "handegg" is very limited to the us
My dog search: a plush shark toy (not a blahaj), my own hair, anthropomorphic manatee illustration on a shirt, a fortune cookie, an illustration of a frog skeleton jumping out of the frog flesh.
I gave them a pass on the hotdog
Of course all smart phones spy on you - but Apple phones are SO expensive!
Why pay extra for the privilege of being spied on? Can't you be spied on cheaper with an Android phone? ;-)
Apple makes their money charging a lot for devices and on recurring revenue from subscriptions and taking a hefty percentage of every app sale and subscription.
Google and other android manufacturers make their money selling meta-data about you.
I prefer Apple evil, others prefer Google evil.
You can get an older used model for a good price, and anything released in the past 5 years will be good enough for most people.
@@CarrotConsumer or a refurbished model. Then they will also repair it for a fee until it's obsolete, or you can get 'Apple Care'.
The reasons Apple predominates in the mobile field are the UX design, the walled garden ecosystem, the reliability, the prestige, the security architecture and long-term security and product support. But they are prohibitively expensive.
@@CarrotConsumer
I'm an old fart, so not a smart-phone demographic - no peer pressure to get an Apple device! My smart-phone is an Android Moto M6, and the account is with a UK supermarket chain called Tesco. It costs me £8.00 per month (perhaps $10.00), including the phone, and all the data I could ever want to use.
Smart-phones are amazing! But I don't need a fancy one. I don't have any apps, or play games on it. It is just for communication, and reading the news if I'm on a train etc. And watching UA-cam - but I don't use their app - using Brave browser, I don't get any ads either!
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I also really hate the way that every time there's an upgrade or new installation that swipe and talk to text get worse than they already were and I'm surprised they're functioning at all because I'm pretty sure that five years ago they worked better.
Only thing about the apple scan would be that it would be an exact match. At picxel level or ways similart to how youtube checls for copyrighted videos. I f you have a picture of a dog and have your comuter scan for it the process is straight forward. VERY MUCH likepacial recognization software. A match of two specific images compared.
Files uploaded to cloud and can be viewed from different (authorized) device, cannot be end-to-end encrypted.
Although, there could be a form of encryption between the cloud server and authorized user but not E2E.
E2E works with 2 or more different party in communication.
Incorrect. support.apple.com/en-us/102651
@@RebeccaWatson Well, this is interesting. (Still reading.) I wish I could know more from what I read in the link. I see E2E added to most of the Data category, but we have "trusted devices" been able to access data. Maybe there was a master device, and the trusted device(s) had a secondary key (which should expire) to decrypt files retrieved from the cloud. Having a single key (Apple ID, with aid of a password) means the identity of a user can be replicated. It seems E2E, but not completely.
I wonder if Apple uses a protocol similar to "Signal Protocol." There can be linked devices, but without the master device, you cannot have a linked device. Encryption keys are rotated sometimes to prevent linked devices from having permanent access (an additional protocol to keep linked devices in check with the master device for routine authorization).
I wonder if Apple uses a protocol similar to "Signal Protocol." There can be linked devices, but without the master device, you cannot have a linked device. Encryption keys are rotated sometimes to prevent linked devices from having permanent access (an additional protocol to keep linked devices in check with the master device for routine authorization).
The only things I like about American Football are Superb Owl (birbs r cool) and virtually guaranteed extra shifts (time and 3/4) on game day.
I'm continuing to operate from the assumption they're all evil, all the time. Now I'm off to search my wife's iPhone for dog pictures.
I switched from macOS to Linux 8 years ago, and it wasn't that difficult. You can set up macOS in a VM if you absolutely need to run it, and it is trivially easy to find instructions on how to customize the VM in such a way that all iCloud functionality will work like it is running on Apple hardware. If you get comfortable with Linux, Purism sells phones that are built to run Linux; they don't have the best specs, especially for the price, but it is a small price to pay for the privacy benefits. Also, Linux uses fewer resources than iOS or Android, so the worse specs are less noticable.
Of course the Catholics want to see how much competition they have in the "abusing children" department.
Don't forget Musk basically said he's perfectly okay with CP/CSAM being posted on twitter.
Run, Indy! Run! It's a bright, beautiful day, and seeing such a lovely pack member having fun helps with my depression. Thanks, Rebecca!
But about the content of the video . . . I'm viewing it and making this response via a MacBook Air. I got my first MacBook in 2013 and replaced it last year. I use a Mac because I find Microsoft products increasingly infuriating and am not enough of a computer nerd to play with Linux or other operating systems. But hearing you talk about the vice Apple is caught in -- partly of its own making, if I understand correctly -- makes me a bit squeamish.
Especially about that bit of moving to Austin, Texas. Austin DOES have a well-earned reputation for keepin' it weird, but what the Texas Legislature poops out adds a HUGE "EUUUCH!" to the whole state.
So I'm just going to try keeping that image of Indy running in my brain. Because with the likes of Greg Abbott suggesting that Texas needs to secede from the Union so they can hide razor wire in the Rio Grande to kill migrants trying to enter the USA, I feel like going back there would be a mistake. So I'll just one rhetorical question and then try to go with my day with Indy on my mind.
How'd that last attempt at seceding go, Gov. Abbott?
Hold up....
Degroof Petercam a Belgian asset manager, and *Christian Brothers Investment Services, a *Catholic* investment firm?
I have questions.
I really had to hold back on Christian Brothers, who I only know via Irish writers discussing child abuse
And let's not forget that Belgium majorly bungled what's still one of the biggest and craziest abduction/CSA cases ever.
Edit: *that we know about
I think it's pretty telling that christofascists use the old term instead of CSAM.
I agree, but also on the other hand I am super excited that they teased a superbowl ad for a $200 billion company (deadpool 3)
Not just concussions. Dementia and early death due to chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
When it comes to dragnets and false accusations, and automatic reporting - please, look at the Western Union.
I should be able to share juicy details when I'm out of the dragnet.
9:29 - *_To which Elon Musk said "Hold My Beer!" and then bought Twitter...!_* 😝
Thank you
As much as I loathe the litigious nature of this country, I really really hope someone with a uterus, that may or may not have moved to Texas sues everyone involved.
Catholic investment firm? I wonder how much they make from NOT paying taxes.
....or why I continue to make up my own mind and use my spending budget accordingly. Billionaires probably don't feel it but I do.
Love your Wallaby explanation!
It’s a little thing called manufacturing consent. They are trying to break down privacy using a pretext.
Superb video, RW!
the iphone is the best spying device ever made
I'm as skeptical of this assertion as I am that "Apple already has backdoors that they won't share with law enforcement," if for no other reason than because the number of iPhone users makes them _such an attractive_ exploit target.
_That said,_ my five mins of research surfaced a credible story on a recent pwn2own event that talked about the bounties for iOS needing to be exceptionally high to attract competitors, indicating that the platform is much more difficult to crack.
Tesla sighs in relief.
The Intercept does a lot of critical reporting.
I am concerned that certain spaces seem to drop all responsibility and accountability the moment privacy concerns come into play.
I’m not a lawyer, so maybe that’s why I’m not as concerned if a private entity wants to control what gets posted on their stuff. But maybe that alone gives the gov room to force them to spy/act on other things 🤷🏿
I think the bigger issue that’s not being addressed is that tech has certain types of monopolies, and thus one or two corps making a decision is more powerful than the gov making a decision
The superb owl lmao
The thing that annoys me most about this "think of the children" rhetoric to justify the removal of privacy is that it completely bypasses the vital concept of innocent until proven guilty. Companies like this want to develop a society in which everyone is assumed to be a rapist or murderer or equivalent transgressor until proven otherwise, where if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't have any reason to mind anyone knowing everything about you and your life. And when you develop a culture like that, no one's going to care what happens to all the false positives that these algorithms spit out.
Reminds me of Google reports customer to police over doctor photos by Louis Rossmann. That's the kinda thing that's gonna happen here too.
I call it “Cradle Ball”!
We’re way overdue for a digital bill of rights for all citizens and consumers. Most have zero clue they’re being spied on and used for data mining and profit. Digital technology Education and support for digital consumer rights is the best path forward.
I look forward to discovering whether Taylor Swift wins.
...ha, I jest! She will obviously win.
Of course she will. It's all a setup you see: Afterwards she will crown Biden dictator for life and take all the guns away and give them to the marrauding mexican gangs of South Dakota.
She has won already!
It's rather telling that they are just actively admitting to tax avoidance
I like all your vids, but this one was extra good
In no way do companies pay for advertisements. We do. We as consumers of any and all products pay for ads. Even Oprah's billion came from the markup on products to pay her via advertising dollars. Peace/JT
Nah companies absolutely pay for advertising. That's kind of the great thing about advertising, companies have become very comfortable throwing money into advertising, but often don't have any idea how much that advertising has been worth. Most advertising campaigns are probably way overbudgeted. Advertising companies are basically scamming these big corporations, it's hilarious.
@@yurisei6732 and where do the companies get the budget for advertising?
Just to pick the tiniest of irrelevant nits: Ads for ads are nothing new. Have we forgotten the launch of the Infiniti car brand? A grey smoke fills the screen, a deep baritone says nothing in particular, and tells you to wait for the actual product launch. It was so vague that if I recall correctly, SNL made a parody of it with nobody knowing what they were trying to sell.
Companies have long had ad campaigns that have a through line that culminates in the Super Bowl commercial.
Tech as a whole needs to unionize.
Arnold’s State Farm ad looks pretty funny…and they don’t even make fun of his sex crimes!
Hey, why is the top center photo of one of your “not a dog” cats a pic of *my* cat Robin? Seriously, that pic looks exactly like Robin. iCloud mixup? 😸
Linux rising?
No?
Understandable. Have a nice day.
Is it weird that I mentally pictured you tipping your fedora?
I use Arch, btw, but if System76 wanted to crowdfund a SuperbOwl ad, I would 💯 chip in.
Probably a driver issue.
@@cerumen hold on it's fine I just need to boot up the virtual machine in my virtual machine in my virtual machine.
I’m an ardent criminal rights advocate.
Because sometimes people forget what universal actually means
I searched for "food" in my iPhone photos once and literally the first result is a photo I took on a hike of a Galerina marginata, aka the funeral bell mushroom, aka, the deadly skullcap mushroom. At the time I just though it was funny. But it's not like it was on a plate, it's on a log in the woods. And definitely not food. I also have a picture in my iCloud of my son when he was two wading into a pond. You can see his butt. It's adorable. But I don't need an algorithm that thinks a wild growing highly toxic mushroom is food deciding it's kiddie porn and sending a swat team to my house, thanks.
Not only would privacy be compromised, but nothing meaningful is achieved in the exchange. Sure go ahead and report someone with inappropriate material on their phone to the authorities... and then what? A mentally ill person goes to prison? That's great, the prison industrial complex is always happy to have more bodies, but it doesn't stop the abuse. The real problem. How about we work on that instead?
3:01 Tim Apple? ha ha I'm pretty sure you are not the first to call him by that name. I think the universe has decided that's what his name should be!
Yeah, I've never been a fan of apple- but here at least I'll say they took the right side.
According to the captions the end of handegg season means the superb owl.