New Delhi: The day after Apple announced a new child safety feature for the device, there seems to be a lot of skeptics about how it will affect user privacy.
The worries are there because Apple is a company that always fights up the causes of privacy and user security.
The WhaksApp CEO will Cathcart in a series of tweets has raised valid questions and even accuses Apple to make a surveillance system.
“I read the information issued by Apple yesterday and I was worried.
I think this is a wrong approach and setback for the privacy of people around the world,” Cathcart tweeted.
He further said that whatsapp would never “adopt this system”.
I read Apple’s information out yesterday and I was worried.
I think this is the wrong approach and setback …
https://t.co/QGXQFIZ4N1- Will Cathcart (@wcathcart) 1628271857000Cathcart argues that personal computers have existed for decades and “never became a mandate to scan personal content of all desktops , laptops or phones globally for violated legal content.
Not how technology is built in free countries to work.
“He further said that” this is an apple-built and operated supervision system that can be easily used to scan personal content for Whatever they or the government decided to want to control.
” This is a question that has been debated because the features are announced that it can be used.
This is an apple-built and operated surveillance system that can be easily used to scan personal content for …
https://t.co/K1P3WQitrt- Will Cathcart (@Wcathcart) 1628271858000The CEO WhatsApp is also criticized by security expert problems.
“There are so many problems with this approach, and are very disturbing to see them acting without involving experts who have long documented technical and wider concerns with this.” Apple, its part, has stated that the privacy of users remains in the heart of the new child’s features.
In the next few days, we can hope to hear more than other security researchers and Apple on all user privacy problems.