Mysk's analysis concludes that iPhone users can be identified
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 5:54 am
Apple is always talking about the privacy of its iPhone users' data, whose anonymity it supposedly respects scrupulously and never uses for its own benefit. However, it seems that the apple company violates its own privacy policies (although it boasts otherwise).
According to research by developers at software company Mysk, Apple is violating its own rules when collecting data about its users on the App Store.
and associated with their own iCloud account, although Apple denies this practice.
If Mysk's findings are true, Apple's official privacy policy could differ significantly from the policy actually implemented by the Cupertino company.
In its privacy policy, Apple swears that “none of the information collected personally latvia number data identifies a user.” However, Mysk’s report reveals that the data sent to Apple includes a permanent identification number called a “Directory Service Identifier,” or DSID.
This ID number is apparently linked to the user's iCloud account and therefore to the personal data stored there : full name, phone number, date of birth, email address and other personal information.
According to Mysk's research, the analytics data that the App Store sends to Apple invariably includes the DSID identifier.
According to research by developers at software company Mysk, Apple is violating its own rules when collecting data about its users on the App Store.
and associated with their own iCloud account, although Apple denies this practice.
If Mysk's findings are true, Apple's official privacy policy could differ significantly from the policy actually implemented by the Cupertino company.
In its privacy policy, Apple swears that “none of the information collected personally latvia number data identifies a user.” However, Mysk’s report reveals that the data sent to Apple includes a permanent identification number called a “Directory Service Identifier,” or DSID.
This ID number is apparently linked to the user's iCloud account and therefore to the personal data stored there : full name, phone number, date of birth, email address and other personal information.
According to Mysk's research, the analytics data that the App Store sends to Apple invariably includes the DSID identifier.