It's funny how people are begging Tim Cook and Apple to put a stop to this when they're all in on it too. 
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I did not skirt around your question at all:
Apple is indeed not capable of (or does not want to) "determining your interactions with an iPhone as within their developer terms of service" (your statement above). I thought I already implied that in my answer. But yet Apple makes big claims about privacy which they can not (or don't want to) uphold.
You are not turning this into a semantic discussion are you? Cause I have better things to do than playing word games
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This post essentially says everything I was going to say. Must be my long lost good twin.
They do it too. All major sites have analytics hooks integrated into both their website and mobile apps. All are capable of recreating your user session, what you clicked, where you hovered your mouse, etc. These are standard CX tools that have been around for years. This isn’t an Apple thing.
Install Gasmask App + a blocker list, works like a charm, you can have multiple lists, so even empty ones that pass through everything, it changes the Host file on the fly.
Most people don't know this but there's a built in blocker, it's data is in the hosts file located in /Private/etc/
It can only be written by root user but installing Gasmask makes that process easy and accessible in the menubar as a Menu Extra.
And....wait for it....it's free.
Because people don’t like it. Instant big deal.
And, after Radio Shack, we now know that whoever buys said entity in the future can try to retroactively change any privacy policy in place.
ING international or just ING, wish I could have stayed with my old bank but this "shady" bank "forced" me to open an account there, the good news was it saves me money.
This is to me not a dichotomy. It’s not like Facebook making bold claims about your privacy, which they do. Apple itself makes claims and they seem to be in line with the privacy stance. Maybe a narrow interpretation but they are better than most.I did not skirt around your question at all:
Apple is indeed not capable of (or does not want to) "determining your interactions with an iPhone as within their developer terms of service" (your statement above). I thought I already implied that in my answer. But yet Apple makes big claims about privacy which they can not (or don't want to) uphold.
You are not turning this into a semantic discussion are you? Cause I have better things to do than playing word games
they have a code of ethics for the developers, and my guess is there is no way to police all code branches in an app to see what they are doing. If the developer is a rotten apple(pun intended), they should be dealt with.
Wake up. Apple's privacy assurances are limited to their apps. And Apple's app vetting is limited to finding things that hurt Apple.
While we're on the subject of privacy, here's a revealing infographic detailing the information that the bigger tech players collect according to their TOSs. You'll be surprised who seeks the most detail.
While we're on the subject of privacy, here's a revealing infographic detailing the information that the bigger tech players collect according to their TOSs. You'll be surprised who seeks the most detail.
When you ASS-U-ME, you generally get things wrong. And no surprise, wrong again.
It doesn’t have to be an api it could be a simple name and address form.
Back to the question about Facebook totally being banned from the ecosystem. I trust apple with my personal data, but it’s been shown time and time again for many years, apps, programs and websites can be used for nefarious purposes. Apple can’t police the internet.
Even if the tech exists any interaction with the phone via app or website can be saved. Again, Apple can’t force a developer to be honest.
You have it backwards. Apple should be the one warning users.
All the apps mentioned in the article get money (and a lot of money) selling flights, rooms and more to us.
They are just greedy and till we give them a real lesson it will keep going that way
Look at Facebook or Google: they are giving you "free stuff" and they make billions.
The second you send a packet of data through port 80 you don’t have privacy. The notion people do this or that to retain “privacy” or don’t use apps is cute and super naive. Your digital fingerprint is everywhere the moment you touch the internet. That’s the fact of life. It’s easier once you’re resigned to it until the wider system gets better and actually grapples with it.
I think Session Replay is pretty much an industry standard. I am not surprised many Apps were using it. I am actually surprised by how many people thought this wasn't done before. ( And many website uses Session Replay too, to test if their new features or design are working as well as expected )
What is a potentially a violation though, is the recording of Keyboard Input information to a third party. I.e If the tech is self hosted and the Server is on the App Developers, they already has all the information you have given them, how they are handling it, is entirely their responsibility. But if these information is going to a third party like Glassbox before having user's consent, then this is clearly wrong.
Edit: Just read the report the files are not going to Glassbox. Which is there is no violation. However a lot could be said about the obfuscation of password.
What is a potentially a violation though, is the recording of Keyboard Input information to a third party. I.e If the tech is self hosted and the Server is on the App Developers, they already has all the information you have given them, how they are handling it, is entirely their responsibility. But if these information is going to a third party like Glassbox before having user's consent, then this is clearly wrong.
Edit: Just read the report the files are not going to Glassbox. Which is there is no violation. However a lot could be said about the obfuscation of password.
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There are plenty of session-recording services for websites, too. Your concerns about mobile being easy to compromise are misplaced. The risks are everywhere. We need to shut down any of these companies that fail to disclose.
No-one said it was "an Apple thing", Apple are'nt the ones doing it. However Apple sets rules in it's app store that allow other companies to do this.
Surely you can see why some people are bitter when they see Apple spouting non-sense about "privacy"?
This is not fundamentally Apple's wrongdoing; it's common UX analytics practice, provided by third parties. Unfortunately, it's not something that has crossed anybody's radar as constituting dodgy privacy practice, until now, so nobody's done anything about it. Aside from key logging, I don't see anything particularly worrisome about logging taps and gestures...
I suppose Apple could beef up their store requirements to either exclude this kind of tracking, or to require masking out of sensitive data (preferable), but that's about all they could do. As I say, I think key loggers should be off-limits. And screen capturing any text should be verboten... I suppose Apple could perhaps do something about the latter by having a mechanism to clear any user-editable text views prior to capturing screenshots. Dunno... seems like it might be possible... ??
I suppose Apple could beef up their store requirements to either exclude this kind of tracking, or to require masking out of sensitive data (preferable), but that's about all they could do. As I say, I think key loggers should be off-limits. And screen capturing any text should be verboten... I suppose Apple could perhaps do something about the latter by having a mechanism to clear any user-editable text views prior to capturing screenshots. Dunno... seems like it might be possible... ??
Why? they are all operating within the rules set by Apple for the App store.