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They have been loud, but it remains to be proven. The truth is that we don't really know what they do with our data.
Is there ANY evidence that they don’t do what their privacy policy says they do?
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They have been loud, but it remains to be proven. The truth is that we don't really know what they do with our data.
Telling the FBI to bugger off when they came and asked apple to crack their own encryption isn't enough of an example, exigent as it may very well be, whatever your personal opinions of due process are?
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> I have never seen an app that doesn't allow to completely deny location access. That's because Apple explicitly tests for that during app review, and will reject apps which crash or refuse to work if they're denied access to Location Services or other APIs (photos, contacts, microphone, etc).
So this is a non-issue. But technically, even if an app slips through the cracks and only allows "Always" and "While using the app" as options, you can force-quit the app without pressing either of the buttons on the modal and then deleting the app, thus not giving it any location information.
It can't. The permissions UI is rendered by the OS, not by the application. There's no way to hide the option to deny permissions.
Apples fake privacy concerns. They allow apps like gas buddy to wholesale sell your real time location to governments by using vague language in their privacy policies (which I cannot even find a link to on their homepage).
You have control over your data: you can choose whether GasBuddy has access to your location always, never, or only during use. This is one case where iOS widgets can impact your privacy: setting it to 'only during use' also qualifies the widget to refresh your location when it displays. It's not obvious to me whether any access of the widget screen is sufficient or whether you have to scroll past/to the GasBuddy wid…
I don't know what this is referring to, could you please share?
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You have control over your data: you can choose whether GasBuddy has access to your location always, never, or only during use. This is one case where iOS widgets can impact your privacy: setting it to 'only during use' also qualifies the widget to refresh your location when it displays. It's not obvious to me whether any access of the widget screen is sufficient or whether you have to scroll past/to the GasBuddy wid…
>its CEO has strong personal reasons for valuing [privacy] I don't know what this is referring to, could you please share?
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You have control over your data: you can choose whether GasBuddy has access to your location always, never, or only during use. This is one case where iOS widgets can impact your privacy: setting it to 'only during use' also qualifies the widget to refresh your location when it displays. It's not obvious to me whether any access of the widget screen is sufficient or whether you have to scroll past/to the GasBuddy wid…
>its CEO has strong personal reasons for valuing [privacy] I don't know what this is referring to, could you please share?
If Apple really wanted to protect user privacy, they would provide something similar to the iAd Framework they provide for their own Apple App Store Ads, where the app can ping the iAd Framework to tell if the user installed the app from an Apple App Store ad and monitor the users long term engagement, while Apple handles all the attribution on their end. If Apple took the same approach they use for their own App Store Ads it would be a big step forward in helping protect user privacy and eliminate the need for all the fingerprinting, etc that some ad networks do.
The fact they didn't, I feel this is nothing more than a fluff PR move by Apple and does not seem genuine.
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Telling the FBI to bugger off when they came and asked apple to crack their own encryption isn't enough of an example, exigent as it may very well be, whatever your personal opinions of due process are?
I'm extremely glad they did that, and I absolutely give them credit for it. But it only proves that they were willing to stand up to the FBI. It doesn't prove anything else about how they handle your data and privacy. I'm not saying that they abuse it, I'm just saying that we don't know what they do.
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Is there ANY evidence that they don’t do what their privacy policy says they do?
Yeah, there is: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...
For instance, Microsoft.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/china/china-overview-...
>The new APIs are part of the StoreKit framework and include a new class called SKAdNetwork. >With the new set of APIs, Apple will become the intermediary between the app and advertising network for conversion tracking, eliminating the need for apps to install third-party ad SDKs which potentially expose sensitive user data. Am I missing something or is this not really any different than the 3rd party ad SDK problem…
besides that, with the 2 previous sdk, advertisers know if the install was from a good user vs a abandoned user/bot that installed it once and vanished. the new apple sdk conveniently will not let advertisers make that distinction.