Sean

Top example of nominative determinism.

Definitely not a major plot point of the movie Shooter starring Mark Wahlberg.

The device shows up there because you connected to your computer and trusted the connection on your iPhone (and you had to type in your passcode to confirm.) If someone doesn’t know your passcode they can’t do this. If they do know it, they could access your photos anyway.

It’s probably worth filing a Feedback report to request Hidden photos don’t get served up over the standard file system access alongside the rest of your library. You can do so by typing applefeedback:// into Safari and hitting return. If you’re on a developer or public beta, you can simply use the Feedback app instead.

Except the person in the linked article contacted Glassdoor and Glassdoor added the name they gave support to their account.

So, worst they can do is dox you and make things worse. But go off.

All of the Classical offerings are in the Apple Music app. Classical compositions are organized differently than modern music. Instead of an artist->track paradigm, you may have the same composition with a different conductor, orchestra, date of performance, etc. For classical listeners the main Music app’s search and library model aren’t a good fit.

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite is a browser bookmarklet that will edit your comments and then delete them. I did this before deleting my Reddit account and it was fast and simple.

Of course this law doesn’t prevent these companies from monetizing the information they’d gather. Huge privacy implications here if every account has identification and relationship records.