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> This is incredibly misleading. Apple has been mostly criticized for allowing apps to collect excessive user data--for example, apps could access contacts at f
by Yoric 7y ago
> This is incredibly misleading. Apple has been mostly criticized for allowing apps to collect excessive user data--for example, apps could access contacts at first without permission. It has been slowly shutting down these methods, as the realization has sunk in the the more open environment of Macs and PCs is just not appropriate for mobile phones. For example, apps in iOS 13 cannot access bluetooth or Wifi information by default, since it was being used to infer location.
Yep, the tech world has a short memory :) I distinctly remember Apple caught red-handed slurping GPS data from their users.
> The tracking ID was Apple throwing a bone to ad industry and app makers, when it shut down far more precise ways of tracking users.
Unless I'm mistaken, it's still much more precise than any form of web tracking.
- jeromegv 7y agoYou keep repeating that "Apple was caught red-handed" but what exactly are you referring to? What are your sources on that?
- Yoric 7y agoI'm referring to this: https://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/ https://www.wired.com/2011/04/apple-iphone-tracking/
- vlovich123 7y agoWhich is literally when they began to take privacy very seriously. Keep in mind that's 8 years ago & the first iPhone was released 12 years ago. I wouldn't characterize that as "recent".
- Yoric 7y agoWell, people still distrust Microsoft for stuff they did during the 90s :) But yeah, I'll grant you that it's not recent.
- sambe 7y agoYou say “caught red handed” and other accusatory statements. The article says they had announced how (encrypted, anonymised) and why (to provide more accurate location information to users) before it was “discovered”. It doesn’t really appear to be very nefarious, nor an advertising issue. Maybe an unintentional or neglectful privacy issue at worst, in the case of an already-stolen phone.