Possible alternative - Apple making their “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties” claim true, by building & operating the required all-Apple infrastructure.
> Apple making their “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties” claim true,
As far as I can tell, the article being discussed made up the ‘fact’ that Apple made such a claim.
I googled the ‘quote’ from the article This raises questions about Apple’s public privacy claim that such system data “never leaves Apple servers or goes to third parties.” and could not find any evidence that Apple actually made that claim. Even the phrase “leaves Apple servers” doesn’t get any hits to statements by Apple.
The closest I found is a statement about Private Cloud Compute, where they say “If it requires greater computational capacity, it can draw on Private Cloud Compute and send only the data relevant to your task to be processed on Apple silicon–based servers” (https://www.apple.com/privacy/features/)
So, even there they do not claim they own those servers or that they are located in Apple’s data centers, but I think it can be inferred that they own them.
This means trusting AWS’s privacy policies too, which users aren’t always aware of or expecting when Apple promises full control. It’s about honest transparency.
We pay a premium for Apple's privacy restrictions and then end up being tricked to rely on Amazon's. It is false advertisement to say the least....
When Apple says your data doesn't leave their servers, that doesn't mean those servers have to be in their own datacenters or that Apple doesn't have other vendors that help them deliver their service. It also doesn't mean those companies have access to your unencrypted data. That data also, by necessity, likely traverses other networks in encrypted form on its way between you and Apple.
Apple claims that data they are in full control of your data from Safari, Maps, and Spotlight etc.... Data center or not, this contradicts both the spirit and letter of that promise.
If you have any evidence that Amazon is accessing the data of their leased tenants, that would be an earth shattering indictment of the entire cloud industry
It would be akin to accusing Datapipe or any other provider of pulling drives out of any client with racked servers in their data centers.
And that’s exactly why high security applications don’t use cloud like this; because that can never be guaranteed by some policy compliance certificate. That’s the only thing stopping them from pulling drives, etc.
