The move isn't surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

  • ClownStatue@piefed.socialEnglish
    2914·
    2 days ago

    Honestly, I have no problem with this. If I’m doing shady stuff, I’m not using iCloud’s hide my email function when it’s so easy to create a throw-away email account elsewhere. The point of hide my was hiding your real email from advertisers/spammers, not to help you do crime.

    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      131·
      2 days ago

      Your point hinges on the assumption that anything you say or do can’t be retroactively criminalized

      • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 day ago

        This is a great point. Plus we need to fight them for every inch of ground they try to take, no matter how inconsequential it may seem at the time (the pot isn’t boiling yet, but it’s getting hotter very quickly, it feels like)

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      42·
      1 day ago

      The Apple marketing loop:

      Apple cult:

      Apple is the only company that cares about user privacy and security. They’ll even guard your data from the feds.

      Apple using dark patterns to hand over user data to feds again and again and again and again that 99% of users will fall for and always bends the knee to authoritarian countries.

      Meh, they were using it wrong. They should have read the long ass fine print. That’s not how you were supposed to do it dumbass.

      One news in 10 years about how Apple refuses to hand over data. Probably done as marketing stunts in cooperation with the feds.

      Look, Look, Look, Look, how secure company this is.

    • Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.comEnglish
      1221·
      2 days ago

      Man I hate people like you it should be sued for false advertising not im an apple fan boy and im way smarter than everyone else

      • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
        133·
        2 days ago

        Apple isn’t marketing Hide My Address that way, and if you think they are you deserve what’s coming you.

        The article is written with bias, and does not explicitly say Apple turned over the name without being compelled by a warrant. If there was a warrant, this is a non-story; if there wasn’t, I’m not thrilled about it but there are bigger fish to fry.

        im way smarter than everyone else

        Based on your punctuation and grammar, doubt

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          So people who think “hide my email” hides their email are the real problem, got it

          • SlurpingPus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Only a fourteen-year-old edgelord can think that hiding the email from spammers and hiding it from law enforcement are the same thing.

      • howmuchlonger@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        So, I think we might need to read the fine print on these user agreements before we say “false advertising.” You’d probably be surprised how Apple is pretty transparent about what they will and won’t do.

        • JillyB@beehaw.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          How many of the people who accepted that fine print do you think read it? Do you think its the individual’s fault for not combing through every term? Or is it Apple’s fault for misleading people and putting the clarification in a place they know nobody will pay attention?

          • howmuchlonger@lemmy.orgEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            I do think if you’re going to have assumptions about something that you should read the fine print, yes. Do I assume anyone does that? No.

            Also, I don’t ever recall them suggesting that they won’t tell the cops who you are if they have a warrant. So I think people misled themselves.