The hubbub began last week when Apple introduced a software tool for iPhones to flag cases of child sex abuse. The debate has implications for online privacy and government surveillance and underlines how the storage of our digital data has changed over time, raising concerns about the ways we should conduct ourselves technologically.īut I’m getting ahead of myself. That’s the question many are now pondering because of a change coming to iPhones. As we all put more of our photos, documents and videos online, how much of that data really belongs to us anymore?