I didn't make that comment to have a political discussion, only to remark on the public's attitude to surveillance laws.
However, I would like to point out the legislation to force people to provide ID to use social media and dating sites has been in the works for some time.
We can't blame the LNP for all of this. All of the surveillance related bills passed in the last 10 years have been bipartisan.
I'd also go as far as to say this is what Australians want. Many people believe these laws won't be used against regular citizens and will assist in law enforcement efforts.
I believe the API gave you control over the framebuffer (r/w), so theoretically it would have been possible for Uber to read and store buffer data to record your screen.
“It was used for an old version of the Apple Watch app, specifically to run the heavy lifting of rendering maps on your phone & then send the rendering to the Watch app. This dependency was removed with previous improvements to Apple’s OS & our app. Therefore, we’re removing this API from our iOS codebase."