Fight for the Future will hold protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at Apple Stores on September 13th. Apple has currently delayed the ill-conceived scheme to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), but which could easily be bastardized by authoritarian governments and agencies to scan for political images, words, etc.
No matter how well-intentioned, @Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow.
They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.* https://t.co/wIMWijIjJk
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) August 6, 2021
On August 5, 2021 Apple announced that its next iOS update will include new surveillance features that will scan all photos uploaded to iCloud Photos and all iMessage images sent or received by child accounts. This announcement, which the company claims is meant to prevent child exploitation, creates a backdoor that actually endangers children, threatens human rights, will especially impact marginalized people, and destroys privacy and security on Apple devices.
There is no question that child abuse is a crisis that needs to be addressed, but broad surveilance of peoples’ devices is not the solution. This sort of monitoring is a shocking departure from Apple’s former commitment to privacy and security for its users. Because these scans happen on the devices themselves, they would bypass end-to-end encryption and establish a new precedent for law enforcement to access information on personal devices. Apple is the only major tech company to take this incredibly dangerous step—but once they do, others may be forced to follow…
There is still time to stop this — Apple could reverse course and decide to not push this update. Sign the petition and email Apple leadership to tell them to drop these plans and recommit to never opening any sort of backdoor to monitor our communications.
Join a #nospyphone Protest
MacDailyNews Take: We encourage everyone who can to join a #nospyphone Protest at one of the following Apple Retail Store locations (additional locations may be added; you can host a protest (more info here) on September 13th at 6:00pm local time:
• Boston Protest, 815 Boylston St., Boston, Massachusetts
• Portland Protest, 450 SW Yamhill St., Portland, Oregon
• Atlanta Protest, 3393 Peachtree Rd. NE, Atlanta, Georgia
• San Francisco Protest, 300 Post St., San Francisco, California
• New York Protest, Address TBD, New York, New York
• Washington D.C. Protest, 801 K St. NW, Washington, DC
More info, and the opportunity to add your name to the following petition here.
Tell Apple: No Spyware on my Phone
Apple is abandoning its commitment to privacy with iOS 15 by creating an unprecedented backdoor it can use to scan everything on your Apple devices, including photos and messages. They say that this is to stop child sex abuse material, but once the backdoor exists, it will be used to surveil & censor people. Don’t let Apple throw away the privacy and security of billions.
Sign the petition here.
RIPApple cynic, he bravely fought against COVID, but COVID cynically won the fight for the future.
May you Rest In Peace.
Did Apple Cynic actually pass away? I strongly disagreed with some of his opinions but I wouldn’t wish suffering on anyone. I’ve had Covid twice and am still here kicking. I’m well into my 70s.
😳
Cynic was a bot and TXUser was from the NSA (undercover as an ex-repub).
Agree with your thoughts and wondering the same. AC has not posted in awhile so I suspect this mocking clown is clueless…
Did he stop about same time as TXuser or am I just imagining things…?
TX and AC are friends – they enjoy each other’s intellect. It’s a free world so they are welcome to the culinary pursuits. I mean, in today’s world, we encourage sausages, mince, red meat and more. No discrimination. We encourage veganism, too. Whatever floats your palate boat. Whether you prefer to insert your USB sticks, or eject them, we vote for freedom. Anyway TX and AC have been busy, we’ll hear from them soon though.
Is that you Joe?
Hey friend.
Why didn’t the first set of antibodies help in fighting off COVID?did you decide to get vaccinated to avoid a third infection or are you good now?
“Your comment is awaiting moderation”.
Just MDN censorship. Alive and well.
I hope AC is ok, I miss his endless cynicism and negativity. It was the lowlight of my day. If he has battled COVID, I hope he gave it a real flight and taught it a major lesson, and is now a real COVIDcynic
Rust in Piece- Your post made me smile, critical, but nice sentiment. We need more of this.
(unless I totally misinterpreted your point)
6 retail locations only and unless one is a coastal, there’s no real option?
Great…who’s driving this bus?
Joseph Batman and Robinette Biden.
A back door is the CCP’s criminal government’s number one feature request. And adding a backdoor for the CCP is not negotiable and there is no way Tim Cook’s apple will stand up to the CCP. Way to much money at stake
Tim Cook already has a well used backdoor. I’m told Pres Xi knows the ins and outs of it very well.
You have to FIGHT. If you dont fight, these wrongs will be the new normal. You have to fight against tyranny like this, and it is exactly that. Tyranny.
Right you are Zombie. Now that Apple is flying the surrender flag for the CCP I am literally losing sleep nowadays trying to divest from Apple data services in preparation to move all my remaining Apple devices to Samsung Tizen, Google Android, Ubuntu, or other code I can audit myself.
Tim Cook just gave an incredible gift to the open source community, and any manufacturer who’s logo doesn’t look like an apple. I don’t think Cook fully grasps what he’s done.
Warrantless searches of our data without even consulting us? WTF.
You have to FIGHT, for your RIGHT, to paaaaaaartay, to paaaaaaaaartay!
Anyone looked at those Freedom Phones?
Here, here!!! Fight for your privacy rights!!! I never thought in a million years leftist liberals would carry out spying and monitoring of all their customers — fu Apple…🖕🏻🖕🏻
Apple is run by leftists, sadly. Even that incredible and always wrong bore, Al Gore, is on Apple’s board.