So #Apple is scanning your local files on #macOS without consent according to Jeffrey Paul ( @sneak ) sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-sc

Again folks, #Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind.

@joeo10 @sneak Do you have Siri Suggestions disabled? Because mediaanalysisd is part of Visual Lookup. But this should be off with suggestions disabled.

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@reactorcontrol @joeo10 siri suggestions is disabled (and has been for months), yes. some have speculated this is because of live text. i'd speculate that the ML models would be on an apple CDN and not accessed via api.smoot.

we still don't know wtf it's sending or receiving without some RE.

@sneak @joeo10 My first intuition would be that it’s a bug (Hanlon’s razor and all) around lookup. But very interesting (and concerning) discovery. Thanks for publishing.

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