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"However, a study shows that motion sensor data is accessed by 2,653 of the Alexa top 100K websites, including more than 100 websites exfiltrating motion sensor

"However, a study shows that motion sensor data is accessed by 2,653 of the Alexa top 100K websites, including more than 100 websites exfiltrating motion sensor data to remote servers." This is scary.

JimDabell 7y ago
Settings > Safari > Motion & Orientation Access to disable this for iOS. I think it's disabled by default.
- Nextgrid 7y ago
  Correct. It is disabled on a brand new iOS 12.2 install.
  - kohtatsu 7y ago
    The option isn't present on iOS 12.1.4, the previous version.
  - sambe 7y ago
    12.2 is the release that mitigated this attack. So 12.2 also contains random noise in the sensor data - releases before this did not disable it by default (according to the article).