Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature

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The move isn’t surprising, but shows what data is available to authorities when paying Apple customers use the Hide My Email feature.

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halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity at all.

Sign in with Apple allows you to use Hide My Email to keep your personal email private when you use Sign in with Apple to create a new account with an app or website.

Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal email inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses and your personal email address is kept private.

That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.

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suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pretty much any anonymization system is designed to protect your real identity and address from bad actors, not to hide you from the police. Protecting your anonymity against the government itself requires an entirely different approach, NONE of the publicly available email aliasing systems are designed for that.

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lyralycan@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it. Even though this was likely special treatment because they messaged the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.

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- theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily
  
  No it’s actually still really easy, even more so in this example where it was just corruption for personal benefit and not used against any kind of legitimate threat to the public.
  
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homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The data was turned over during an investigation into a man who allegedly sent a threatening email to Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel.

Great. Justice being done huh. Corrupt-ass motherfucking piece of shit continuing to use the office for himself and only himself.

Hows those Epstein files workin’ out Kash? Your congressional perjury indictment come through yet?

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