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		noptd on Sept 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features In that example, you phone is still a snitch but it's snitching to Apple in order for them to then snitch to the "appropriate" authorities.

oreilles on Sept 4, 2021 [–]

No it is not, as zero information is sent to Apple unless you use their cloud service. Now if you consider that a cloud syncing service is spyware because it sends information to the provider, I don't know what to say.

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