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Apple’s default apps are collecting user data even if users try disabling them, research from Aalto University claims, with it being an almost impossible task to properly accomplish.
Apple’s Advanced Data Protection feature
Apple’s Advanced Data Protection feature
Apple prides itself on making privacy a key reason to own an iPhone and its other products. It has privacy policies like App Tracking Transparency that can limit the amount of data collected by third-party apps installed by users.
However, a study by Aalto University that examined default apps and services included as part of a new iPhone found Apple’s own apps can feed back a lot of data to Apple. Also, that data was hard to prevent from being collected in the first place.
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Apple makes it really hard for users to completely stop it from collecting data
