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Is apple now reading my keyboard inputs? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I‘m a little shocked rn. I am using fluffychat on ios since my legacy iphone is still working and I dont want to throw it out until its done.

But this happened the first time: I wrote „then I might need to take a taxi“ to someone and an installed taxi app immediately popped up via notifications saying „get off 25% today“ or something.

This freaks me out big time since it could mean every word I write on this phone gets checked by something/someone.

Anyone else? (It was literally the second I wrote the sentence)

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[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago (9 children)

No. If someone is telling you that Apple is doing that, they are lying to you. Demand proof, because no one can provide that. Because Apple is not doing that, and if they’re telling you they are, they are lying.

[–] thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you demand proof to state they do, you should provide proof when stating they don't. It's not like Apple is the most trustworthy company in the world. With big tech it's always reasonable (definitely not certain) to assume they could be spying on your activity, and unless you are able to download your software source code, check it and compile it yourself, it's almost impossible to tell.

[–] Juno@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a burden of proof fallacy. 😕

It's no one's job to prove the opposite. The burden is on the initial claim.

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

The only thing we know without a proof is that they might be doing it. We don't have a proof they do it but we also don't have any proof they are incapable of doing so. A reasonable course of action would be to take precautions against it while not condemning them either, until they are either proven actually guilty or actively unwilling to up their security, which would also strongly imply the former.

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