Here’s How Apple’s New ‘Privacy Labels’ Might be Misleading You

Here’s Everything You Need to Know about Privacy Labels

Privacy labels tells the user about the information that the app will collect.
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To find the new labels, once you download an app from the App Store, under the app’s description, look for ‘App Privacy’. Under that a box appears with the name ‘privacy label’, which is divided into three categories:

  • Data used to track you
  • Data linked to you
  • Data not linked to you

Analysis By Security Researcher Proves Otherwise

In order to prove this vulnerability, an analysis was conducted by Patrick Jackson, Chief Technology Officer, Privacy Pro. According to the analysis, several iOS apps were found to share information that could identify a user’s iPhone with Facebook, Google and Game Analytics.

The research further elaborated that these apps were also sending Unity – a company that provides game makers with software data – the user’s ID and details of the iPhone that is being used. Additionally, it also shares data…

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