Do you remember when Apple was the answer to Big Brother? Or was that always just a lie? Apple’s MacOS caught sending user data to Apple every time an app is opened
It went from emerging as basically “alt tech” of the day, cementing this image with the famed “1984” commercial that showed a dystopian future where Apple was the antidote to tech monopolies (it was IBM back then) – to, in 2020, silently tracking every move users of its operating system, MacOS, make.
Literally tracking every app that is opened on every Mac everywhere.
Other than what program was launched, Apple in this way also knows when, and can geo-locate that user at ISP and city level. “This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city,” Paul writes.
Oh, and all that traffic going to Apple is NOT encrypted. So not just Apple, but anyone who wants to can see the data. Governments. Hackers. ISPs. Whoever.
Because they have the RIGHT and DUTY to know EVERYTHING you do ever. Or something. You have to wonder how much of that carries over to iOS. (Hat tip to Gates of Vienna.)
Anyone who believed the 1984 commercial was deceiving themselves then and probably still are. Apple was trying to control everything you did when all they had was the Apple II
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