Apple is Giving Users a Trust Score

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Venture Beat reports that Apple is giving its users "trust scores" based on how they use their devices. The updated privacy policy says that calls and emails will be used to determine the score. An Apple correspondent told Venture Beat that the system is intended to fight iTunes fraud, and that the only data it receives is a numeric score.

"To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase. The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers." This provision is unusual for a few reasons, perhaps the least of which is that Apple TVs don’t make phone calls or send emails. As such, it’s unclear how Apple computes the device trust score for iTunes purchases made through Apple TVs, but there’s other potential “information about how you use your device” that could be scraped and abstracted.
 
That's like the car manufacturers still follow you, counting the miles on the odometer you have driven.
 
Holy shit! If there was ever a reason NOT to buy an iPhone, it would be this.
 
The car makers sort of do, when you go to the dealer and they plug into your OBD port, they can tell a lot about what you have been doing.
And dont worry cars will get wifi soon and soon you will be tracked / mined by your car too, and that in real time then.
 
Some of apples new and upcoming features will be ;

The Apple-Youth ( initiative ) : to help teach children how to to improve and keep improved customer scores

The Apple-Core ( initiative ) : to encourage customers to increase their own scores by informing apple-core of other customers score lowering behaviors

(and)
The Apple-Solution ( action ): to remove low and falling customer score customers from the apple eco-sociosphere to enhance the experience for higher scoring customers
 
Humancentipad is coming. And people would still buy apple.
 
Venture Beat reports that Apple is giving its users "trust scores" based on how they use their devices. The updated privacy policy says that calls and emails will be used to determine the score. An Apple correspondent told Venture Beat that the system is intended to fight iTunes fraud, and that the only data it receives is a numeric score.

"To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase. The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers." This provision is unusual for a few reasons, perhaps the least of which is that Apple TVs don’t make phone calls or send emails. As such, it’s unclear how Apple computes the device trust score for iTunes purchases made through Apple TVs, but there’s other potential “information about how you use your device” that could be scraped and abstracted.

replace Apple with China and voila you have what the Chinese are doing
 
I will take a score of zero in exchange for you not listening in on my calls and reading my emails...
 
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