The author felt nothing like a true believer. At least not compared to coverage from MacRumors or other mainstream media sites which keep mindlessly vomiting up the "but Google's been doing basically this for ages, so it must be harmless" type logic. Intentionally misinterpreting every relevant point from critics.
Google has been doing this for ages in their cloud. As have all the other major clouds.
Apple's the first to do this on your own device. Sure, only content that would have been uploaded to iCloud. For now. But this is the start of that particular slippery slope.
I'm thinking about encrypting all data in the cloud and disabling the platform specific image upload/backup altogether. Not sure how I would a) automate the backup process from our phones to the cloud and b) how to make it somewhat convenient to look at and share pictures among the family
Any form of automation and convenient goes against the main point that is privacy.
I use cryptomator for this. On Android it allows auto uploading to any of the major Android-enabled clouds, while encrypting. You do need to keep your vault unlocked though for the auto upload to work, otherwise it will need to catch up whenever you unlock it. Not sure if it has this feature on iOS.
If you share cryptomator and the vault to your family/friends they can access it but it's not possible to look at the pics on the web that way.
The app is also paid but it's a one-time fee and not expensive.
Imagine if your luxury car came with cameras equipped in all the compartments, sending an alert to authorities that what looks like a baggie of cocaine was detected in the glove box, blowing away any protections from unreasonable search.
