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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 9 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (31 children)

Apple’s Cycle Tracking app is also locally and E2E encrypted in iCloud.

When your phone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all of your health and fitness data in the Health app, other than your Medical ID, is encrypted. Any health data synced to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and on our servers. And if you have a recent version of watchOS and iOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, your health and activity data will be stored in a way that Apple can’t read it.

This means that when you use the Cycle Tracking feature and have enabled two-factor authentication, your health data synced to iCloud is encrypted end-to-end and Apple does not have the key to decrypt the data and therefore cannot read it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120356

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (18 children)

Is the app and the OS open source? No? Then please shut the fuck up with your dangerous "advice". People really still havent understood how this shit works. How is this being upvoted? Corporations do not deserve your trust when they claim things without proving them.

This is not a joke, this shit affects peoples lives. After spearheading the technology for creeps to stalk people with physical tags, and being the first to experiment with client side communications scanning, how do people still not understand that apple is just as bad as the rest.

[+] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

Apple is very clear how they make their money. Desirable products at high margins, free customer support, and an ecosystem that encourages the purchase of additional devices and services.

They have also been very clear about their commitment to privacy, and have consistently led the industry in customer-focused privacy software. It’s the primary reason many customers choose Apple over their competitors.

Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value. For comparison, Apple sells ~$54M in Apple Pencils every year.

[–] sus@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Realistically, why would Apple blow up a $3.3T global success for an extra $10M? That 1/330 of the company value

Because they know that even after being caught harvesting user data for advertising, people will still claim they don't do that even on a specialist privacy community on lemmy. Now think just how long it will take for the average apple user to realize it

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yes. There was an issue with iOS 14.1 that enabled personalized ads by default if you didn’t restore from a backup. I was working for Apple at that time. It wasn’t intentional or malicious, and a hotfix was implemented as soon as the bug was identified. The lawsuit was just. Apple fucked up.

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