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Interesting. So this is not cell phone tower data coming from ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon. Does iOS grant apps access to your phone number or do these third party a
by tppiotrowski 6y ago
Interesting. So this is not cell phone tower data coming from ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon.
Does iOS grant apps access to your phone number or do these third party aggregators need another mechanism to link devices to phone numbers?
- diebeforei485 6y ago> Does iOS grant apps access to your phone number No - unless you grant access to Contacts.
- thesausageking 6y agoThey don't need phone numbers. If the code is running inside an app, it can snap location data and send it to a server. Along with that, they pull in whatever other data they can link. This includes things like what model device, current battery level, home zip code, Facebook id, etc. With these data columns, you can match users pretty easily.
- diebeforei485 6y agoThis also implies that device-side firewall rules (if Apple allowed them to exist) could cut off the data brokers' business model.