​Apple & Facebook are having a tiff

Recently, there’s been some published articles about Facebook not being happy that Apple’s latest iOS upgrade, 14.5, will offer some privacy options not previously available. Namely, to be told about an app wanting to track you and the option to opt out of that.

An article on that subject is HERE. 

So while I can sort of commend Apple’s “privacy concerns”, it’s really a drop in the bucket and I am doubtful it will change much, if anything. Facebook is currently making adjustments to conform? to this requirement from Apple. But let’s be frank, tracking is going on at a scary level, if you think too much about it. There are traffic cameras all over the place, neighborhood cameras on everyone’s doorbells, cameras on the insides and outsides of businesses. Then, everything you are doing on your smart phone has the ability to track where you are, what you’re browsing, what you’re buying. I don’t mean to worry you, it’s currently a part of life and the intention is consumerism. It is that consumerism that makes capitalism work, you can’t have one without the other.

That leads me to 3 movie references, Batman, the one with Heath Ledger, referenced Batman using everyone’s phone in Gotham to find the Joker. The second is 12 Monkeys, where Brad Pitt is in a mental hospital with Bruce Willis, telling him that if you aren’t a good consumer then you must be mentally ill and that’s why you get put away. And third, Ex Machina, where the AI inventor references his tapping into Google’s, Facebook’s, Apple’s photos & cameras, so he could get more data on facial expressions to make a more subtle and accurate robot, and those companies couldn’t complain since they were secretively using the data as well. Three great movies, check them out if you haven’t seen them already.
Finally, there’s another article on the idea behind Apple’s software changes and Facebook’s reaction you can read HERE. I thought it was probably a bit more in depth on what’s really happening between Tim & Mark.

And a fourth movie, “Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. More human than human is our motto.” 
Hopefully you already know that reference.