Apple - Not So Privacy Minded After All

They want you to believe that you have privacy. Apple Sued Over iPhone Privacy Settings After Gizmodo Story

The problem was spotted by two independent researchers at the software company Mysk, who found that the Apple App Store sends the company exhaustive information about nearly everything a user does in the app, despite a privacy setting, iPhone Analytics, which claims to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” when switched off. Gizmodo asked the researchers to run additional tests on other iPhone apps, including Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks. The researchers found that the problem persists across most of Apple’s suite of built-in iPhone apps.

The article linked above is mostly about the lawsuit, and the fact that Apple seems to be in violation of California privacy law. If you want more of the details about what Apple is actually doing, that information can be found at the following link: Apple Is Tracking You Even When Its Own Privacy Settings Say It’s Not, New Research Says.

For all of Apple’s talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones do have a privacy setting that is supposed to turn off that tracking. According to a new report by independent researchers, though, Apple collects extremely detailed information on you with its own apps even when you turn off tracking.

Privacy is such a 20th Century concept.