Disable Spotlight and Lookup Deamons
Dear Apple community,
I'm trying to disable the spotlight and lookup services on my computer following the recommendation and rules of the operating system, described in the manual page of the "launchctl" command.
However the provided command do not produce the expected results:
spotlighted_system ~ % sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist: Operation not permitted while System Integrity Protection is engaged
For the specified bootout option of the launchctl command additional system privileges are required.
sudo launchctl bootout system /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.index.plist
It would be great if the manual page can be updated accordingly to inform users how spotlight and lookup services can be disabled to keep and respect the users privacy further in the best possible way.
Indexes and metadata of files, operation system processes and user processes contain sensitive user information and should not be subject of uncontrolled or unsupervised sharing, postponed data or information processing by analytical services or intermediate agencies, especially artificial intelligence with underlying discrimination networks for information processing.
Agent societies always have a launcher, but they still need a manager, a controller, and however a shutdown rule or special – ethic based – recovery service.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470058411.ch11
Thanks in advance for your help and your effort.
Best regards,
KH Krempels
MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15