By default on iOS every single search in the app search pane hits the web, character by character.
That and iCloud Backup are the first two things I disable on a vanilla iOS.
That and iCloud Backup are the first two things I disable on a vanilla iOS.
https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/9149304?co=GENIE...
As far as I know, appleid's have some kind of password/authentication system that could be used to encrypt backups.
It also says you use Android messenger which hooks up to Google's services.
The text messages have to be stored somewhere.
What gets saved by Android
The following data is backed up in your Android settings. You don't need to turn on Google One's backup to save this data.
App data
Call history
Contacts
Settings
SMS messages
Not if you don't have iMessage enabled in iCloud settings.
Apple has, of course, denied this:
“We have never heard of PRISM,” said Apple spokesperson Steve Dowling in a statement. “We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.”
Shortly thereafter, the heads of many of the affected companies met with Obama at the white house to coordinate their next steps at counteracting the damage. The initial cover story was that they were meeting to discuss the healthcare.gov disaster, but it turned out that the meeting was actually about the NSA's comprehensive illegal spying programs being disclosed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/us/politics/as-tech-indus...
Reuters reported in January of 2020 that an ex-Apple employee told them that Apple Legal scrapped a 2018-2020 project to do clientside end-to-end encryption of the iCloud device backups (which would render this collection useless) as a result of pressure from the US government.
"That person told Reuters the company did not want to risk being attacked by public officials for protecting criminals, sued for moving previously accessible data out of reach of government agencies or used as an excuse for new legislation against encryption."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Non-e2e-encrypted iCloud Backups are on by default for every single iOS device if it is set up with an Apple ID.
Please do not believe the Apple marketing narrative about individual privacy.
It seems like you're aware that the FISA court just rubber stamps everything, so resultantly it might as well just not exist because it's simply a farce to make it seem legitimate by invoking the term "court". You're right in pointing out that a second FISA "court" judge would not make any difference.
Ultimately though, even oversight would not solve the problem of the fact that they should just be getting warrants for doing police surveillance in the first place. The bar to getting a federal judge to sign off on any technical mumbo jumbo ("IP address this, ISP that") is hilariously bad/low and they amount pretty much to rubber stamps already. The mind reels when you think that they set up a special fake court simply to avoid that.