You can take pride in most of the products the company makes and in their stance on customer privacy.
Terrible engineering process Total lack of transparency Zero sense that you are a valuable human being Low trust environment Makes you want to quit and become a farmer The worst tools for doing your job in the industry
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/apple-icloud-photos-scanning/ Scanning users photo and reporting the results to government. Isnāt this government surveillance? What happen to the Apple that refused to help the FBI? This time is about child abuse images. Which is a good thing. However, this opens...Read more
Having watched the Apple keynote and the number of incredible features that are brought to iOS is simply mind blowing. More than anything else the enormous attention that apple has given to privacy is very much commendable. Having upgraded to iOS 13 I can see that Bluetooth sharing is shut off and i...Read more
Apple keeps branding themselves as a company that cares about privacy lot. Six hours before the security bug on FaceTime news came up, Tim Cook tweeted about how apple cares deeply about data privacy on Twitter. I hope they are hiring amazing engineers. Is Apple really working hard on privacy or is...Read more
Hello Blind, Can anyone please share what a Privacy Engineer at Apple does? I looked through the JD but it's very vague in terms of tech skills required and the work that's done. TC: 150K Thanks, #apple #tech #privacy #privacyengineer #engineer
So imagine thereās a new multi billion market in Augmented Reality. Apple wants to enter it but thereās a formidable player, Meta in the field already. Meta is minting money with its social media platform and channeling those billions to fund the new virtual world. Apple does not have so many bill...Read more
Do you believe in Apple as a steward for user privacy, against Google, Facebook and others? Or do you find Appleās privacy marketing empty and possibly hypocritical, even dangerous https://www.apple.com/privacy/
... multiple iPhone apps send Apple analytics data, _regardless of whether the iPhone Analytics privacy setting is turned on or off .... ... Apple App Store sends the company exhaustive information about nearly everything a user does in the app ... ... the App Store appears to harvest information ...Read more
I heard that Apple requires employees to hand over there personal email accounts for monitoring. Is this true? If not, do they infringe on personal privacy of employees in any other ways?
I thought Apple was differentiating itself by respecting user privacy. That doesnāt seem to be the case anymore: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-different-about-encryption-opens-backdoor-your-private-life.
To do a (good, valuable) ad network, you need to collect massive amounts of user data. Apple doesn't want to be seen doing that, but wants to still take ad money. accepting the $20B from Google means they get their privacy reputation but still profit from data collection.
I have always been a fan of apple products, as I believed they were doing a great job with privacy. Itās something thatās important to me, and honestly should be to anyone educated in tech and who cares about democracy and the right to free speech/privacy. With the recent news about Apple scanning ...Read more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/29/apple-privacy-nutrition-label/ Besides bashing Facebook, Apple is not without fault either with this whole privacy thing.
I have an SWE loop coming up with Apple soon and one of the interviews in the loop is "Hiring Manager & Privacy" (?). Does anyone know what is this about? Is it just a behaviour session with a different name? The "Privacy" in the title is making me quite nervous š¬ I tried to reach out to the recru...Read more
Hi! I am a recent graduate with a BS in Computer Science and experience working in Cybersecurity consulting. I applied for the Privacy Software Engineering role earlier this year and got ghosted by my recruiter as I believe they finished hiring. I saw the position open up again few days ago and I...Read more
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-privacy-change-will-hit-facebooks-core-ad-business-heres-how-11611938750 Hi guys, How would this affect fb ads revenue. It says apple will enforce on q1, that means to see the affects, we will expect to see revenue changes on following quarters earning call? Ho...Read more
I applied for a senior engineer position in apple privacy engineering team which focus on privacy preserving technologies (fhe, mpc etc). I am a phd specializing in cryptography and privacy and had an initial call with recruiter last week. They mentioned about the first round being coderpad but did ...Read more
Facebook and Apple have been engaged in a public battle over privacy for years now. Apple has criticized Facebook for collecting āas much data as possible from usersā and pitched its privacy-focused features as a way for it to āstand up for our usersā against companies like Facebook. Meanwhile, Fac...Read more
fb guys are not you ashamed that your ceo is against protecting privacy of Americans. #Facebook