tech giant apple, today, he is on the agenda once again with a negative news about privacy, which he attaches great importance to. taking.
apple, states that it always attaches great importance to the confidentiality of customer information. For example, company official confidentiality “Device Analytics and Privacy” on the page states: “iPhone Analysis; may include details on hardware and operating system features, performance statistics, and data about how you use your devices and applications. None of the information collected provides an individual identification of you. If you agree to send analytics information to Apple from multiple devices using the same iCloud account, we may associate some usage data with Apple apps on those devices by syncing them using end-to-end encryption. We do this so that your identity cannot be identified by Apple.”
Two security researchers, on the other hand, claim that the dark parts in these statements do not fully reflect the truth. Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, Apple’s device analytics data “Directory Services Identifier“dsId” which means ” ID found it contains. Security researchers have found that dsId is unique for each iCloud account, and the name, date of birth, email, and information stored in iCloud revealed that it can be associated with a specific user.
It is said that this does not pose a major security threat to the end user, but contradicts Apple’s privacy statements. Apple has not yet made an official statement about these findings, but it should be noted here. Analysis data on Apple devices can be easily turned off in the settings if desired.
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Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally identify you ? pic.twitter.com/3DSUFwX3nV— Mysk ???? (@mysk_co) November 21, 2022
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Apple has previously come to the fore with a privacy-focused lawsuit. A new one to remember iPhone when you purchase and go through the installation phase apple is asking you a question. In this question, the company asks you to send the iPhone’s analytics data to it. If you answer yes to this question, a lot of the information on the phone goes to Apple in real time, the company looks at them and solves problems or Updating the iOS operating system. If you do not accept this, your data remains on the phone.
This was the case until last week. We say this because it’s a security survey, “no” Despite his answer, he found that a significant amount of data was sent from the iPhone to Apple. Just above that The technology giant company, which attaches great importance to privacy, was sued. Further details on this matter directly here is located.