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[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

First Apple selling out a customer using iCloud then this. Geez man.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 5 months ago

Important quote for readers:

Once the Guardia Civil obtained the iCloud email address, the documents show that it requested information from Apple, which in turn provided a full name, two home addresses and a linked Gmail account.

I have mixed feelings about this. This doesn’t sound to me like the actual iCloud data but rather it’s metadata for an account the police know already exists. It’s certainly not great, but it could be worse.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm like 99% sure this is Apple's deliberate decision to make it so companies with confidential data throw out their computers rather than recycling them

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

I doubt it as this seems like a PR disaster

[–] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 7 points 5 months ago

lulz. "deleted" photos