Apple is known for breaking records, and they seem to be equally competitive when it comes to filing a lawsuit. The company has just been hit with a class 4 lawsuit over the accusations Stealth iPhone data collection. Three of those lawsuits were filed in January alone. embarrassed.
In November, Gizmodo reported exclusively In research showing that your iPhone collects very detailed data about what you do on its apps, like the App Store, Apple Stocks, Apple Music, Apple News, and more — even when the iPhone Analytics privacy setting is turned off, which is expressly to stop snooping.
Days later, an iPhone user filed a class action lawsuit against the company California. Pennsylvania follows with a The second case is of the second degree In January, a New Yorker presented, apparently feeling left out Third case After a week and a half. Now, there’s a fourth class action lawsuit from a disgruntled California resident, spotted in a new report by log.
“As privacy concerns have grown, Apple has sought to position itself as a leader by promoting how its mobile devices allow users to control the information they share,” says plaintiff Julia Cima.ued in The complaint. However, Apple does not honor users’ requests to limit data sharing.
Gizmodo contacted Apple about this issue for the seventh time this morning, which must be another record breaker. As it has happened the previous six times, the company has not responded. Apple has not said a word to defend this issue of privacy in public.
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When you take care of your iPhone, you create a lot of opportunities for data collection, which can be useful for any number of purposes. Some of this data includes analytics information, which measures how you interact with certain apps. In our original report, Gizmodo noted that it’s unclear exactly how Apple uses analytics data. The company has updated their file Analytics Privacy Policy With a vague explanation a few weeks after the November story, he wrote that the data is used to “help Apple improve and develop its products and services.”
However, this policy also appears to have several glaring errors, according to tests by app development company Mysk that originally discovered the problem.
Apple’s privacy policies state that “You can also choose to disable sharing of Device Analytics entirely” by turning off the Share iPhone Analytics setting. But when Mysk analyzed that data your iPhone sends to Apple, the test showed that the data is collected no matter how you modify your privacy settings.
Misk’s tests examined the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, books, and stocks. Apple collected data including data including detailed, real-time information about everything you do in certain apps — not just the things you type or click on, but even how long you spend on certain pages and what ads and content you view, according to an exam. In some cases, this could be a serious privacy issue. In the App Store, for example, searches and downloads of specific apps can reveal anything from users’ sexual orientations to religion to sensitive health issues like addiction and substance abuse.
but that is not all. Apple’s privacy policy states that all of this data is anonymous, and “none of the information collected identifies you personally.” Additional tests showed, however, that the data the company collected includes a permanent, immutable identifier number called a Directory Services Identifier, or DSID, which is directly linked to your full namephone number, date of birth, email address, and more information associated with your iCloud ID account.
Mysk continues to test it. The company’s latest investigation found that the same privacy issues on iPhone persist on Mac laptops. Mysk researchers say the App Store on Apple computers collects the same kind of analytics information, along with the DSID, regardless of your computer’s Analytics privacy settings.