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  • Washington Post finds 5,400 app trackers sending data from an iPhone

    05/28/2019 11:37:21 AM PDT · by Swordmaker · 37 replies
    9to5 Mac ^ | May. 28th 2019 7:44 am PT | Ben Lovejoy
    Monitoring software used by The Washington Post on an ordinary iPhone found that no fewer than 5,400 app trackers were sending data from the phone – in some cases including sensitive data like location and phone number. It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of. Your iPhone probably is doing the same — and Apple could be doing more to stop it. On a recent Monday night, a...
  • It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?

    05/29/2019 4:35:42 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 29 replies
    MSN.com ^ | 28 May 2019 | Geoffrey Fowler
    It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of. Your iPhone probably is doing the same — and Apple could be doing more to stop it. On a recent Monday night, a dozen marketing companies, research firms and other personal data guzzlers got reports from my iPhone. At 11:43 p.m., a company called Amplitude learned my phone number, email and exact location. At 3:58 a.m., another called Appboy got...