Apple Clings To Its Privacy
Apple is known to be a pretty private company. However, one thing should be said about how secure Apple tries to keep its user’s information.
Thank you.
In an article published by Forbes, Apple is shutting the doors to Facebook’s data mining by taking a VPN app called Onavo off the App Store.
While Facebook has been known to data mine, it is a whole other thing when Facebook is surpassing its reach on a social media platform and gripping its wires around every aspect of someone’s private life. That is essentially what Onavo is able to do when people believe they no longer have to worry about their privacy. The VPN isn’t private at all, in fact it is just a false sense of security. The article refers to Onavo as Facebook’s very own spyware program.
Once installed, Onavo is able to track the applications people are using. This did not sit well with Apple and the company’s updated commitment to user’s privacy. Apple’s new policy states that app developers may not “collect information about which other apps are installed on a user’s device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing.”
This crackdown is a good reminder to Facebook that it can’t pull the same things that it has in the past. People are not forgetting as easily this time, and there are consequences to violating trust and privacy.
Onavo has been on the app store for years without any backlash from Apple. However, Apple is starting to do right by its users by removing many other apps that are not abiding by the amended guidelines. Hopefully this means that businesses, people and other app developers looking to take advantage of Apple users are going to have a much harder time now.
Android fans, you are on your own.