{"id":38047,"date":"2018-09-20T19:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38047"},"modified":"2018-09-20T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T00:07:13","slug":"apple-is-now-giving-people-trust-scores-based-on-their-calls-and-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38047","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Now Giving People \u201cTrust Scores\u201d Based on Their Calls and Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/apple-is-now-giving-people-trust-scores-based-on-their-calls-and-emails_09202018\">Apple Is Now Giving People \u201cTrust Scores\u201d Based on Their Calls and Emails<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50324\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphoneimage-e1509029957888.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphoneimage-e1509029957888.jpg 560w, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/iphoneimage-e1509029957888-300x155.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This information will likely not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Big Tech\u2019s increasing propensity to violate the privacy of users and use their data for questionable reasons, but here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, the tech website <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/09\/18\/apple-creates-an-itunes-device-trust-score-based-on-your-calls-and-emails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venture Beat<\/a>\u00a0noticed an eyebrow-raising bit in the latest update to Apple\u2019s privacy policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apple\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/05\/23\/apples-new-data-and-privacy-page-offers-data-access-to-european-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promise of transparency regarding user data<\/a>\u00a0means that any new privacy policy update might reveal that it\u2019s doing something new and weird with your data. Alongside\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/09\/17\/apple-rolls-out-ios-12-tvos-12-and-watchos-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday\u2019s releases of iOS 12, tvOS 12, and watchOS 5<\/a>, Apple quietly updated some of its iTunes Store terms and privacy disclosures, including one standout provision: It\u2019s now using an abstracted summary of your phone calls or emails as an anti-fraud measure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The provision, which appears in the iTunes Store &amp; Privacy windows of iOS and tvOS devices, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase.\u00a0The submissions are designed so Apple cannot learn the real values on your device. The scores are stored for a fixed time on our servers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Venture Beat points out that this provision is unusual, in part because it includes Apple TVs, which do not have the capability to make calls or send emails.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how Apple is going to collect the data, and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s equally unclear how recording and tracking the number of calls or emails traversing a user\u2019s iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch would better enable Apple to verify a device\u2019s identity than just checking its unique device identifier. Every one of these devices has both hardcoded serial numbers and advertising identifiers, while iPhones and cellular iPads also have SIM cards with other device-specific codes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Is Now Giving People \u201cTrust Scores\u201d Based on Their Calls and Emails This information will likely not be a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Big Tech\u2019s increasing propensity to violate the privacy of users and use their data for questionable reasons, but here we are. Two days ago, the tech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,6489,652,6490,765,21769],"class_list":["post-38047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-mac-slavo","tag-privacy","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-surveillance","tag-trust-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38048,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38047\/revisions\/38048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}