I do not like mentioning other privacy sources or persons but i have to address this. I watch many privacy youtubers including Rob B… Everytime he makes a video about iPhone he keeps repeating the same things and i am getting confused now what is true and what is not.
Basically his reasonings are if it is possible then it is true. For example he says that Apple intelligence scans everything you do on your phone including e2e chats. He also states that there is csam on iphones, even though Apple announced they were not going to implement it on iPhones. He pointed to some daemon that is running on iPhones and Macs.
From what i know there are toggles to turn off Apple intelligence and many other features on the iPhone. Surely they do something right?
I have been implementing some of his advice but his statements about iPhone are very general and outrageous.
Meanwhile other privacy people like Michael Bazzel include in his books privacy configuration for iPhones.
So my questions are what is true? Is there CSAM on iPhones? Does Apple intelligence scan everything i do on my iPhone even when i have turned it off? Does Apple analyze my surroundings… like Rob states?
To an extent but you can turn it off – see the big fat off button in “Apple Intelligence & Siri”
They very publicly got shit on for that, last I checked they are not doing it
yes (mostly[1])
The closest thing to CSAM that you would get with an anti-CSAM scanner that runs on-device is a hash collection that hardly could be called CSAM
tl;dr people overhate on apple and just make shit up rather than calling out the actual issues or mix in real issues among conspiratorial bs
They have been in hot water around collecting anonymous analytics around app store usage and a couple other first-party apps even if you opt out of analytics broadly ↩︎
Please don’t follow Rob B. He is highly misleading in a lot of ways that are just weird. He is also a fear mongorer.
Please read about all that you’re asking about elsewhere first and then get back after reading better info elsewhere.
I think if you are going to offer advice like this you might want to help them by providing some sources, especially if you are telling OP the sources they are using are untrustworthy. Otherwise you are just sending them on a blind chase.
Fair.
That was a quick comment I made on mobile. I wasn’t at my desk or in a position to fully explain myself.