Why do people conflate the FaceTime bug with Apple not caring about privacy?

[mrochester]

The reason I buy and use Apple's products is because they don't have a business that relies on my personal data being collected to sell targeted advertising. My transactions with Apple are very simple, I pay money, I get product, and my privacy against mass data collection to sell advertising is protected because I then use no products or services on my devices that utilise that business model.

So why do people think that a bug in FaceTime is somehow indication of Apple not caring about user privacy? I don't understand how the connection is made between a bug in software and Apple's business model. What do Apple stand to gain by deliberately letting people listen in to others over FaceTime? Are Apple collecting all these snippets of speech to sell to someone?

Is anyone able to enlighten me how the 2 things are connected?

Many thanks.

M.

 

[mrochester]

It's fashionable to hate Apple.

/thread

What purpose does it serve to essentially create a fake narrative though?

 

[mrochester]

This plus you need a sexy headline/content for those all important clicks and ad revenue.

There is also a lack of journalists who actually understand technology so they just see 2 and 2 and pick the first number that comes to mind.

How do we solve the problem?

 

[mrochester]

We don’t. Just ignore it. There’s no point getting wound up or responding.

Remember my first post in this thread, there is nothing you can do about it.

Hopefully the noise will have no impact on Apple and they will continue to do their good work. I don’t want to see Apple watered down to be like google or Facebook else there’ll be nowhere left to turn.

 

[mrochester]

Didn't the Mum of the lad who found the bug struggle to get Apple to pay any attention despite multiple attempts to alert them to the bug?

Yeah it seems Apple need to improve their bug reporting procedure, which they’ve said they will do.