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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @final OP 5 Oct \ parent \ on: GrapheneOS: The Purpose, The Strategy, and The Why [Article] tech
My concern with the iPhone has always been similar to that of an ISP. I use a VPN because I don't want a single point (ISP) that gathers up all of my website traffic and knows every site I've visited. I assume they store/sell this data either now or in the future.
Most developed countries typically have retention policies for ISPs, although they aren't usually very long because the scope of data to store is humongous, around over a year. If an ISP says they don't sell or share this data other than in law enforcement, I would trust it since it's a legal obligation, but I know others won't trust that. Think it would be a very controversial move and data selling is more common in social media / marketing firms.
I figured apple may do something similar. My understanding (could be wrong) is they track and send back to the mothership every screen wake, touch screen interaction, app download, (perhaps internet traffic?) etc... you do with your phone.
That's excessive and unnecessary and information like that isn't valuable enough to build infrastructure to collect of it's billions of users. Important information is what is identifiable or provides details on key events of the person / device, and having a full chronological timeline down to the press is bloated intelligence.
You should expect Apple to know what information you provide on your Apple ID and activities on Apple's services that are not end-to-end encrypted. iCloud provides an end-to-end encryption option but it's not a default so the content (files, contacts, messages) can be accessed on there. E2EE is default for iMessage but if iCloud backups are enabled for iMessage then Apple could provide decryption keys for the content if that backup isn't end-to-end encrypted.
If you are using an Apple service like iCloud Email, Apple Music, App Store and more, you should also expect the activities you do on those apps to have relevant data collected like purchase / download history, track history, email history etc.
Apple's privacy policy is generally well in comparison to many other companies, the flaws is the lack of end-to-end encryption and the large scope of information they collect: https://privacyspy.org/product/apple/ - Apple provide VERY personalized services which in-turn require a lot of information, many of these features are stored and managed on-device as they say.
For Private Relay you could expect Apple knows who is connecting to it and that's about it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
I don't know if these claims are true or not and I don't know if they apply if you don't use iCloud (I do not).
Then the scope they collect is much less, core Apple ID information, app store purchase / download history and device information would come to mind.
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