{"id":49421,"date":"2021-08-19T06:52:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49421"},"modified":"2021-08-19T06:53:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:53:04","slug":"nytimes-the-illusion-of-privacy-is-getting-harder-to-sell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=49421","title":{"rendered":"NYTimes: The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYTimes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/19\/opinion\/apple-iphone-privacy.html\">The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell<\/a> by Greg Bensinger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Even iPhone users with nothing to hide could be forgiven for being a little creeped out that Apple will scan their photos and see if they match existing databases of known illegal pornographic images. Privacy experts called the idea a potential backdoor for governments to request or demand scans for other images or files. Some of Apple\u2019s own employees are reportedly pushing back on the idea.<\/p><p>It\u2019s a good indication that things are headed in the wrong direction when your company\u2019s anti-child pornography initiative gets panned.<\/p><p>A major reason for the failure of Apple\u2019s defense is that the photo-scanning program confirms a fear many users already harbor: Personal data, even the most sensitive, is effectively out of users\u2019 control, accessible at the flip of a switch.<\/p><p>Apple says, relentlessly, that privacy is the central feature of its iPhones. But as the photo scanning demonstrates, that\u2019s true only until Apple changes its mind about its policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYTimes: The Illusion of Privacy Is Getting Harder to Sell by Greg Bensinger:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-privacy","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49422,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421\/revisions\/49422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}