According to Mysk's research, the analytics data that the App Store sends to Apple invariably includes the DSID identifi
Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2025 6:01 am
is always talking about the privacy of its iPhone users' data, whose anonymity it supposedly respects scrupulously and never uses for its own benefit. However, it seems that the apple company violates its own privacy policies (although it boasts otherwise).
According to research by developers at software company Mysk, Apple is violating its own rules when collecting data about its users on the App Store.
Mysk's analysis concludes that iPhone users can be identified and associated with their own iCloud account, although Apple denies this practice.
Apple’s analytics data includes an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple's analytics can personally identify you pic.twitter.com/3DSUFwX3nV
If Mysk's findings are true, Apple's official privacy policy could diffe estonia number data r significantly from the policy actually implemented by the Cupertino company.
In its privacy policy, Apple swears that “none of the information collected personally identifies a user.” However, Mysk’s report reveals that the data sent to Apple includes a permanent identification number called a “Directory Service Identifier,” or DSID.
This ID number is apparently linked to the user's iCloud account and therefore to the personal data stored there : full name, phone number, date of birth, email address and other personal information.
According to research by developers at software company Mysk, Apple is violating its own rules when collecting data about its users on the App Store.
Mysk's analysis concludes that iPhone users can be identified and associated with their own iCloud account, although Apple denies this practice.
Apple’s analytics data includes an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple's analytics can personally identify you pic.twitter.com/3DSUFwX3nV
If Mysk's findings are true, Apple's official privacy policy could diffe estonia number data r significantly from the policy actually implemented by the Cupertino company.
In its privacy policy, Apple swears that “none of the information collected personally identifies a user.” However, Mysk’s report reveals that the data sent to Apple includes a permanent identification number called a “Directory Service Identifier,” or DSID.
This ID number is apparently linked to the user's iCloud account and therefore to the personal data stored there : full name, phone number, date of birth, email address and other personal information.