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Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

With the recent WWDC apple made some bold claims about privacy when it comes to so called Apple Intelligence. This makes me wonder if they did something to what Microsoft did with Recall feature, would people be less concerned and to an extend praise their effort?

Do you trust apple with their claims?

plz1 ,

Nope, but I also feel like Apple would have it off by default, unlike Microsoft.

makeasnek ,
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No, but if a linux distro implemented a local-only version of this, I would be interested in using it.

alsimoneau ,

I honestly don't understand the use case. What do you find interesting about it?

makeasnek ,
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My memory isn't perfect, it would be nice to have a second set of eyes, and I could describe things to it aside from knowing the exact words. "What was that website I visited within the last six months where I played an online game that was like snake but different?" or "What was that cryptocurrency i was researching which was touting it had perfect forward secrecy?" "Who was I emailing about the football game" etc.

alsimoneau ,

I feel like those can be solved already by searching through your emails/browser history.

jonne ,

One thing it claimed was the ability to rewrite copy. Basically finally an improvement over spellcheck which has been the same for like 20 years. Would be nice to have something better built into the OS in every text field.

You could also have stuff like suggestions in your terminal when you're starting to write a command based on what's in the man pages and the layout of your filesystem.

alsimoneau ,

Recall won't help with that.
You also don't need an AI for the second one. Just something more than a basic shell.

humuhumu ,

I found it really weird too, Microsoft pushing Recall, an AI feature, vs Apple pushing Apple Intelligence, an AI feature.. and only Microsoft got backfired.

Cqrd ,

One records your every moment and was instantly exploited to get every piece of data you ever saw and the other does things when you ask it too and asks you before sending data off device. These are clearly exactly the same thing.

Tiltinyall ,

Hmm didn't know iCloud was on device...

Cqrd ,

iCloud is a data backup system, it has nothing to do with the topic at hand

Tiltinyall ,

I guess I thought it was the primary data storage dump. My point is that your data is already sent before you had a choice.

Natanael ,

Recall was set to be default on for everybody and to record everything in a database which is trivial to extract data from.

There's a lot of nonsense Apple is doing too (like the chatgpt integration) but they didn't put keylogger into the system.

jose1324 ,

Everyone suckles Apple's dick. Friends of mine were talking as if Microsoft has ended security and privacy, but are lapping up the Apple Intelligence crap

Tudsamfa ,

I never bought any Apple product and thought they were overhyped, so it might be easy enough for me to say, but no, I personally wouldn't have been Ok with it.

I can see more people begrudgingly using it if Apple did it though.

nick ,

It’s not the same exactly, but: http://www.mac4n6.com/blog/2018/8/5/knowledge-is-power-using-the-knowledgecdb-database-on-macos-and-ios-to-determine-precise-user-and-application-usage

ssj2marx ,

If a bunch of security experts came out in the wake of the feature's announcement talking about how much of a disaster it is, I hope they would.

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