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> Finally, as an iPhone user, my location data is already at Apple. Fun fact about that: --snip from https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navig
by quitit 3y ago
> Finally, as an iPhone user, my location data is already at Apple.
Fun fact about that:
--snip from https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigation-privacy/ https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/03/13/apple-maps-navigati... --
When you use Apple Maps, your route from A to B is fragmented into scrambled sections on Apple servers because nobody else should know your entire route. Not even us. In fact, we don’t even know who requests a route.
// But doesn’t Maps already know who requested a route from their IP address?
Apple Maps uses a random identifier, which means any route requests made on your iPhone are assigned a random identification value rather than labelling you as the sender. So both you and your routes stay anonymous.
- codyb 3y agoI do enjoy Apple's privacy protections, it's a huge selling point for me and definitely has kept me in the ecosystem. It's why I originally dropped Google products in the first place.