#CyberSecurity pic.twitter.com/1pYqdagi4e— Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@mysk_co) November 3, 2022 According to the tweets, the App Store appeared to harvest information about every single thing you did in real time, including what you tapped on, which apps you search for, what ads you saw, and how long you looked at a given app. Apple also received details about what kind of phone you're using, your screen resolution, your keyboard languages, how you're connected to the internet etc. The thread went on to point out the irony in Apple introducing strict measures to prevent third-party developers from tracking users without consent on iOS 14.5, only to break its own rules. In fact, in 2021, Apple's CEO Tim Cook even took a swipe at Facebook in his keynote on user privacy. 'It's unclear if Apple still collects analytics data in iOS 16, even when sharing analytics and personalized recommendations are sw){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Apple has always gone big on its messaging surrounding privacy but a new report has revealed the tech giant might have broken its own privacy rules.
Last week, a Twitter account run by a pair of iOS developers in Canada and Germany, posted a thread detailing lapses on iOS 14.6 that they believed ‘should raise many privacy concerns’.
The developers accused the iPhone maker of sending every tap made in the App Store to Apple.
They went on to claim that the data was shared with Apple even when users had turned off the option for analytics sharing and personalised recommendations.