The All-Seeing "i": Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy

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Apple’s new system, regardless of how anyone tries to justify it, will permanently redefine what belongs to you, and what belongs to them.

How?

The task Apple intends its new surveillance system to perform—preventing their cloud systems from being used to store digital contraband, in this case unlawful images uploaded by their customers—is traditionally performed by searching their systems. While it’s still problematic for anybody to search through a billion people’s private files, the fact that they can only see the files you gave them is a crucial limitation.

Now, however, that’s all set to change. Under the new design, your phone will now perform these searches on Apple’s behalf before your photos have even reached their iCloud servers, and—yada, yada, yada—if enough "forbidden content" is discovered, law-enforcement will be notified.

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[Ernie Nemeth]

If anyone thinks their phone is theirs because they bought it with their own money...think again. You are merely renting the hardware...and the software was never yours.

[JackMcThorn]

I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

[Ernie Nemeth]

As an aside. My most viewed list ignores my most viewed site - Avalon is not listed. Even Alex Jones is listed...

We are censored directly by these big tech firms. Social media is even worse. Putting anything on the cloud is like revealing questionable deductions on your income tax to the IRS (CRA in Canada). You give them the data they will use it against you.

And now they will invade your privacy directly on your iphone, which is why I say we do not own our phones because privacy only applies to those things you own.

[muxfolder]

I have iPhone 5s, iPad Mini 2 and Macbook Pro 2011. Guess I'm not even going to get any of these new fancy updates. But that Macbook Pro still kicks ass. Fast enough, reliable enough and somehow it just works just fine as a all around machine. Not going to buy any new Apple machines anyway. I have PC (with Windows 10 and Linux) and Android phone now which I use mainly anyway.

[Le Chat]

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

I use my (non-Apple) phone to very rarely speak with others...

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Posted by Le Chat (here)

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

I use my (non-Apple) phone to very rarely speak with others...

I have 4 old Nokia phones, couple of Samsungs, one Huawei and couple of prepaid sims. Of course those prepaid cards won't work when the **** heats the fan but at least I have a lot of useless phones to spare!

[Brigantia]

Posted by Le Chat (here)

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

I use my (non-Apple) phone to very rarely speak with others...

Same here! No one knows my number as I only use it when I need to call someone and for emergencies. Apparently I could access the internet on it but I could never be bothered to try to figure that out.

So fed up of being asked, "what's your mobile number?".

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Posted by Le Chat (here)

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

I use my (non-Apple) phone to very rarely speak with others...

I have 4 old Nokia phones, couple of Samsungs, one Huawei and couple of prepaid sims. Of course those prepaid cards won't work when the **** heats the fan but at least I have a lot of useless phones to spare!

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Posted by Brigantia (here)

Posted by Le Chat (here)

Posted by JackMcThorn (here)
I use my phone mostly to speak with other people.

I use my (non-Apple) phone to very rarely speak with others...

Same here! No one knows my number as I only use it when I need to call someone and for emergencies. Apparently I could access the internet on it but I could never be bothered to try to figure that out.

So fed up of being asked, "what's your mobile number?".

I used to have only one prepaid phone. That was for 9 years and almost no one knew my number. I still have one prepaid phone attached to those Apple-devices I mentioned before (and for the other stupid accounts needed all around the internet) and one official number that I'll give to everyone who ever needs it. That being said, I'll probably need more prepaid sims. Now is a good time to buy some. Might come handy in the near future.

[ExomatrixTV]

• Google's Data Safety Section Removes App Permissions List from Play Store:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=bzKj39EFX9A

[Casey Claar]

I've got an idea. Don't. play.

[Tintin]

Using AirPods? It may be highly recommended that you don't. This patent filed in January 2023 outlines things fairly clearly:

Patent: US20230225659A1
PDF link: https://patentimages.storage.googlea...30225659A1.pdf

Abstract
A wearable electronic device includes a housing, and an electrode carrier attached to the housing and having a nonplanar surface. The wearable electronic device includes a set of electrodes, including electrodes positioned at different locations on the nonplanar surface. The wearable electronic device includes a sensor circuit and a switching circuit. The switching circuit is operable to electrically connect a number of different subsets of one or more electrodes in the set of electrodes to the sensor circuit.

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Article:

They’re All Ears: Apple’s Plan to Read Your Mind
Source: The Highwire
Authors: Tracy Beanz & Michelle Edwards
Updated 10:47 AM EDT, Wed April 29, 2026

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We’ve handed over our location, our browsing history, our voice, our face, and our purchasing habits. In exchange, we’ve gotten convenience. Now Apple wants the one thing each of us might have thought was still ours—the electrical activity of our brain. And this time, they’re not even asking. What are we talking about here?

In January 2023, Apple quietly filed patent US20230225659A1 with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filing describes a wearable electronic device—an earbud—equipped with multiple electrodes embedded directly into the ear tip and housing. These electrodes aren’t for audio. They are not there to improve our sound quality. No indeed. Instead, they are there to read our brain—using the same EEG technology doctors use to monitor neurological activity in clinical settings. And because every ear canal is shaped differently, Apple’s patent describes a machine-learning model that figures out which electrode combinations work best for each person’s specific anatomy, then keeps refining that over time. The result is a read that is accurate, continuous, and tailored to each of us personally. The digital signal is then transmitted wirelessly to our phone—and, per the patent’s own language, to a server, where it can be stored as “historic data” accessible by “another person given permission.”

Read that sentence again.

What EEG Actually Reveals
This is not science fiction, and it is worth understanding what EEG data actually captures—because it is a lot more than Apple’s marketing department will ever tell you. Brain waves are not background noise. They are a direct readout of our inner life. The alpha, beta, delta, theta, and gamma frequencies each correspond to distinct mental states—relaxation, intense focus, deep sleep, creativity, active learning. Together they paint an individual portrait of our mind that is more revealing than anything we have ever typed into a search bar or whispered to a smart speaker. These frequencies, as Loyola University researchers have noted, are also the same signals measured in polygraph tests—the ones used to determine whether someone is lying. They can reveal our stress levels, our concentration, our emotional state, and potentially flag neurological conditions that have not yet been diagnosed. As one researcher at the Neurorights Foundation put it in a Science Friday interview, neural circuits in the brain create our thoughts, emotions, memories, decision-making, and our very sense of self.

Apple wants that data streaming off our ears into their servers.

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