Your iPhone Is Sharing Personal Information at an Alarming Rate, Despite Apple’s Promise to Guard Your Privacy
A Washington Post columnist conducted a test showing that your iPhone is sharing far more of your personal information than you thought. Here’s what you should know.
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3 min readMay 30, 2019
By Jason Aten
The Washington Post columnist Geoffrey Fowler is reporting that he ran a test showing that on an average night, his iPhone sent data to over 5,000 trackers. All while he slept.
Considering that one of Apple’s biggest promises is that it protects your privacy and limits the off boarding of your personal information, that’s a lot of data. It’s especially unsettling when you realize what is being sent. Depending on the tracker, third-party services are collecting information like your IP address, email address, device fingerprint, phone number, and even GPS coordinates.
Once you know, it’s actually pretty creepy to think about what goes on inside your phone, and how much of your personal information is leaking out.
