Apple states that neither Apple nor any third party can use the PCC system to single out, monitor, or correlate requests from specific individuals.
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This provision directly addresses the risk of targeted surveillance or profiling of individual users through the AI cloud infrastructure, which is a specific privacy protection relevant to both consumers and regulated enterprises.
Interpretive note: The technical mechanisms enforcing non-targetability are described but their sufficiency under GDPR profiling prohibition standards would require independent legal and technical assessment.
The document states that PCC is designed to prevent any party, including Apple, from directing the infrastructure to monitor or correlate requests from specific individual users, providing a technical non-targetability guarantee for all Apple Intelligence cloud processing.
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"Non-targetability. Apple or a third party must not be able to use the PCC infrastructure to target attacks against specific users. PCC must implement measures to ensure that the system cannot be used to direct requests to only certain users, that Apple cannot inspect or manipulate requests from a specific user, and that requests cannot be correlated across users.Excerpt from Apple Intelligence's Apple Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
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This provision directly addresses the risk of targeted surveillance or profiling of individual users through the AI cloud infrastructure, which is a specific privacy protection relevant to both consumers and regulated enterprises.
The document states that PCC is designed to prevent any party, including Apple, from directing the infrastructure to monitor or correlate requests from specific individual users, providing a technical non-targetability guarantee for all Apple Intelligence cloud processing.
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