Apple advertises extensively that they protect your privacy. Quite a few people seem to believe it. Draw your own conclusions.
2022.11.14 Lawsuit accuses Apple of violating the California Invasion of Privacy Act. The problem was spotted by independent researchers, who found that the Apple App Store sends the company exhaustive information about nearly everything a user does in the app, despite the privacy setting “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether”. The researchers ran additional tests on other iPhone apps, including Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks and found that the problem persists across most of Apple’s suite of built-in iPhone apps.
2022.08.14. Don’t see enough ads? Apple is fixing that.
2022.02.25. Surveillance firm says Apple is ‘phenomenal’ for law enforcement. Secret recordings of a surveillance firm’s presentation show how much iCloud data Apple surrenders to law enforcement — though it’s Google and Facebook that can track a suspect to within three feet.
Timeless and Priceless. “You’re doing it wrong“. Apple is the most intuitive technology you could ever use, right?
2022.08.18. One of the most serious and widespread security flaws ever reported by any company. Just happens to be Apple in this case. You know it’s bad when they self reports a flaw of this magnitude.
2022.08.18. Do you own your phone? Apple is systematically circumventing the ways you have setup your phone to work.
2022.05.16. iPhones can be located even when they are turned off thanks to new functionality. Hackers could take advantage of that.
2022.04.19. Apple is protecting you from all the Bad Apps, right? App Tracking Transparency, a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across other apps. However, ATT, as it’s usually abbreviated, doesn’t always curb the surreptitious collection of personal data or the fingerprinting of users.
2021.06.06. You can trust the App Store, right? Apple’s tightly controlled App Store is teeming with scams. Nearly 2 percent of Apple’s top-grossing apps on one day were scams.
Zero-Click Exploits
2022.02.03. “People want to believe they’re secure, and phone companies want you to believe they’re secure. What we’ve learned is, they’re not,” said Dave Aitel, a partner at Cordyceps Systems, a cybersecurity firm.
2022.01.25. A hacker was able to access his iPhone after sending him a text message — says a New York Times reporter, even though he never clicked anything.
This is only a small sample of the most surprising issues with Apple products.