An Apple Photos glitch, now fixed, is a reminder that digital bits of your life will live on forever.
    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, but ignoring the delete requests, and storing the data puts them out of compliance with European and American deletion and retention laws. And if they were lying, and were using user photos to train models, they have more than enough non-deleted photos already.

      I’m not pulling out my jump to conclusions mat quire yet. The database corruption issue sounds more reasonable. That stuff happens, and Apple isn’t zeroing data. Most people aren’t. Because the data isn’t zeroed, a file can resurrect when a corruption issue is remedied.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    7 months ago

    Wait so these faceless corporations aren’t as invested in protecting my information as I was led to believe by their ridiculously well-funded marketing?

    I mean, I clicked on “Agree” or “Yes” or whatever to that big long important screen they were so weird about.

  • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
    166·
    7 months ago

    Apple doesn’t care about your privacy. They care about their image of caring about your privacy.

    • Louisoix@lemm.eeEnglish
      342·
      7 months ago

      The multi-gazillion corporation needs your protection now!🫡

      • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        216·
        7 months ago

        I’ll be the first to say that Apple should burn in a fire, and that this update fiasco is something that they should pay dearly for. However, there is also a computer literacy issue here where people think that deleting files actually removes the data from the hard drive. You need specialized tools to scrub deleted data off of a hard drive, and it can take a long time, depending on the amount of space being scrubbed.

        • trollbearpig@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          7 months ago

          Man, can you people stop with this BS. One thing is if the photos where recovered from the local storage using some “forensics” to retrieve files from the free sectors in the hard drive. But that’s not what is going on here. These photos are comming back from iCloud after apple pinky sweared they had deleted them. The conclusion here is that apple is keeping your photos (and most likely all your data) in their cloud even after you explicitly tell them to delete them.

          I can’t believe people with “tech literacy” are just repeating apple’s excuse like gosspel and then lecturing other people …

    • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Well this is the technology community. Kinda obvious we’re all nerds here, and care about technology 🤷 and we don’t really have to look hard lol

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
      29·
      7 months ago

      I only use apple for free social capital lol, you have to pick some kind of company to buy your shit from so why not the one that makes you look slightly better with zero effort