Comment by paxys

4 years ago

This is the kind of stuff that makes me laugh at their (very successful) "Apple respects privacy" PR campaigns.

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valuearb  4 years ago

How is this not congruent with strong privacy protections? Your iPhone knows everywhere you’ve been, but when it sends that info to Apple it doesn’t include any personally identifiable information.

  • Symbiote  4 years ago

    Strong privacy would be not sending that information to Apple at all.

    (Do iPhones really send the current location to Apple?)

    • valuearb  4 years ago

      Maps does for sure, it’s how they build traffic measures. They need to know how many (relatively) are using specific routes, but have no need to know who.

      Another case is WiFi mapping. Your phone helps build a database of WiFi network locations to improve your location accuracy, again they don’t need your personal identity to build that.