> I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions.

I believe this risk already exists in the form of LE request with court order to see the contents of an iCloud account, such as conversations and photo metadata. Advanced Data Protection exists to eliminate this particular vector - Apple no longer has account recovery information like private keys escrowed, so there's no way they can provide it if requested.

This would not increase such a risk since the network traffic is effectively VPN'd for anonymization, clients send false data periodically to break profiling or behavioral analysis, and the requests and corresponding results are not comprehensible to Apple's server due to the HE.

> I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions.

What? How?

police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas went to an address associated with an abortion clinic, and wow Texas has bounties, noooo potential for abuse there.

you've really been shilling apple and even obnoxiously giving multiple replies to the same comment, what's your problem?

> police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas

How would they access that information? Under this feature, no location information for the user would be held by Apple's servers. Plus, Apple would have to divulge it somehow to law enforcement, which they don't do as a matter of course until compelled by a court. Courts have a high bar for accessing that information.

Even so, having compelled Apple, they cannot give up what they do not have.

> you've really been shilling apple

I am not "shilling" for Apple, I am commenting about a technology Apple has adopted and which I have decided to trust.

> giving multiple replies to the same comment

Sometimes I prefer to break my replies up so they are easier to consume. I don't agree with the premise that this is obnoxious and so far none of my counterparties has complained. Why are you complaining?

> what's your problem?

What's your problem?

Unless compelled by the court? Or compelled to change the design so that it can be accessed?

Obsessively. I wouldn't do that for free.

Just because no one complained (except, you know, I did...) doesn't mean no one else found it obnoxious, but rather not worth arguing about. It reads like a redditor trying to add on to their reply after the fact to sound better than they did originally. I'm sure that's part of the reason why HN's edit window is so short.

You're annoying, easy as.