It’s probably nothing sinister, though.
  • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    928·
    6 months ago

    So are you saying that they suffered from a filesystem bug that caused deletion failure? I’d imagine they use standard filesystems on their backend, I haven’t heard about any bugs like this.

    If you ask me, what’s more likely, that a company known for shitty behavior lies about deleting files so they can continue to use that information to profit, – OR – that they are experiencing a filesystem bug on their backend, I’ll choose the former.

    • Simon Müller@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      313·
      6 months ago

      no I don’t believe a damn word of what apple’s gonna say on this, I just wanted to get the message out there that generally file deletion works by allowing data to be overwritten, so if the images are local this could very well just be that either it’s showing data that hasn’t been overwritten yet or it accidentally brought things out of the “recently deleted” depending on how long ago it was deleted.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      112·
      6 months ago

      Undeleting nudes

      That’s iPhone

      Seriously: I don’t think the cost benefit is there to intentionally make a maneuver like this. Any crap they pull needs to have a perfectly proper explanation, with our agreement to a specific term buried somewhere in their policies. Can only imagine how much money they blew throwing these billboards up all over the San Francisco Bay area. We have to buy Apple over Google for ostensible privacy gains, and Apple has to lock us in to their walled gardens to make up for their comparatively smaller ad/data business.

      This post assumes Apple is aethical (that’s like amoral but for ethics right?) but still a self-interested economic actor. They can’t let short-term greed get in the way of long-term greed!

      • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Seriously: I don’t think the cost benefit is there to intentionally make a maneuver like this.

        You might be right

        They can’t let short-term greed get in the way of long-term greed!

        lol