iPhone Zaiyu crisis survey tracking the French regulator
Beijing time on August 4, according to foreign media reports, the French data protection agency CNIL said on Wednesday, is on the Apple iPhone without the user’s consent, to track user activity and data storage capabilities to investigate.
Earlier Wednesday, South Korean regulators have announced that Apple iPhone, the “track the location,” a violation of user privacy, and therefore be punished.
British researchers on behalf of Er Ailun Alaska (AlasdairAllan) and Pete Worden (PeterWarden) in April this year found that, after Apple’s iPhone operating system, user activity records the longitude and latitude information, and save this information, any user to access the phone’s location information can be read above.
CNIL General (YannPadova) said: “British researchers published their findings, we also conducted a study of the system, we sent two letters to Apple, Apple were carried out back. Apple This is explained, but is not comprehensive and we are still being investigated. ”
Padua that Apple provided the information, the operating system data collected is stored in the mobile phone among the information is not passed back to Apple or Apple’s business partner.
Apple is committed to providing customers with increased data storage to the existence of such information services.
Padua said that Apple is still the key technical issues have not been answered, particularly how to protect their Apple mobile devices on the data collected?
Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said earlier on Wednesday, because the iPhone user’s whereabouts to collect information Apple has been sentenced to three million won (about $ 2,829) fine. Korea Communications Commission while Google collects user data in the role has been criticized, but Google did not punish.
Apple spokesman (StevePark) said the company does not collect users’ iPhone location data. Parker said: “Apple does not track the location of the iPhone users and Apple has never, nor plan to do so.” Parker declined to say whether Apple agreed to pay fines.
In May this year for the Apple iPhone software upgrade, repair, leading to the location data is not encrypted and stored up to one year of vulnerability.
CNIL said that if Apple found evidence of misconduct, CNIL Apple may also be punished.
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