Many popular iPhone apps collect personal data without user consent or knowledge, using hidden tracking tools, according to a new report in the Washington Post, which contradicts Apple's previous promotion: What happens in iPhone remains Within iPhone.
The monitoring software used by the newspaper found on an iPhone that at least 5,400 trackers send data from the phone to third parties, and often follow the applications busy at night, when the device owner is asleep, or when the smartphone is not used.
The range of data collected is broad, including sensitive data, such as addresses, location, phone number, names, email messages, IP addresses, device names, and unique ad ID.
Although the feature may improve the user experience, the report found that it transfers sensitive information to external tracking companies, such as Amplitude, Appboy, and Demdex, where the amount of data collected and shared with these companies is up to 1.5 Gigabyte.
These traces benefit from Apple's "Background Application Update" feature, which allows applications to transfer data when not actively used to make sure they are up-to-date upon the reference.
Why should someone gather it without knowing what to do with it?
The OneDrive applications from Microsoft, Nike, SpacePay, Weather Channel, Mint, Yelp, Citizen and DoorDash are just a few of the many applications that track a large amount of personal data.
It is difficult to block application traces, unlike cookies on websites, that slow down download times, which are part of your browser code, which tracks you all over the Internet, largely because it is difficult to pay attention to the app traces.
Many applications use tracking to see what users click, so companies can measure user activity in more detail and detail, and in other cases to allow companies to show targeted ads within the app more effectively.
Given the amount of sensitive data tracked by common applications, many believe that Apple is responsible for this, and should act better, as it hosts these applications in its iPhone application store.
According to the report, the main problem is that some applications do not explicitly specify the data collected, the time it is stored, and who can access it.
Apple said: "Apple has done a lot of work to help users maintain data privacy, and designed Apple’s hardware and software to provide advanced security and privacy. at each level of the system.
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