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Everything about privacy (the confidentiality pillar of security) -- but not restricted to infosec. Offline privacy is also relevant here.

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Did you know that #Apple #macOS by default stores your local Spotlight searches and uses them to improve their service? (fedia.io)
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Did you know that #Apple #macOS by default stores your local Spotlight searches and uses them to improve their service?

This option is NOT accessible from the obvious location of "Privacy and Security" but instead from "Spotlight". #privacy #telemetry #datacollection

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Here's a way to check if the #Spotlight searches are being shared with #Apple from the command line:

defaults read com.apple.assistant.support "Search Queries Data Sharing Status"

The values are:

1 - Enabled (data is being shared)
2 - Disabled (data is not shared)

NOTE: I do not know if there are other possible values, or what happens if the key is missing.