Comment by kittikitti
1 month ago
Here's a direct link to the paper that describes this as mentioned in the post,
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encry...
The homomorphic code is available in Swift
https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encr...
I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions.
> I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions.
I believe this risk already exists in the form of LE request with court order to see the contents of an iCloud account, such as conversations and photo metadata. Advanced Data Protection exists to eliminate this particular vector - Apple no longer has account recovery information like private keys escrowed, so there's no way they can provide it if requested.
This would not increase such a risk since the network traffic is effectively VPN'd for anonymization, clients send false data periodically to break profiling or behavioral analysis, and the requests and corresponding results are not comprehensible to Apple's server due to the HE.
> I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions.
What? How?
police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas went to an address associated with an abortion clinic, and wow Texas has bounties, noooo potential for abuse there.
you've really been shilling apple and even obnoxiously giving multiple replies to the same comment, what's your problem?
> police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas
How would they access that information? Under this feature, no location information for the user would be held by Apple's servers. Plus, Apple would have to divulge it somehow to law enforcement, which they don't do as a matter of course until compelled by a court. Courts have a high bar for accessing that information.
Even so, having compelled Apple, they cannot give up what they do not have.
> you've really been shilling apple
I am not "shilling" for Apple, I am commenting about a technology Apple has adopted and which I have decided to trust.
> giving multiple replies to the same comment
Sometimes I prefer to break my replies up so they are easier to consume. I don't agree with the premise that this is obnoxious and so far none of my counterparties has complained. Why are you complaining?
> what's your problem?
What's your problem?
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