12-05-2019, 09:58 AM
https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/30299...it-to-stop
Quote:Apple spends a lot of time talking about how much it respects your privacy, casting Google as an invasive plight on the common user. However, security researcher Brian Krebs (of Krebs On Security fame) has demonstrated that the iPhone 11 Pro still reaches out to Apple’s servers to log your location even when all the location access toggles are turned off. Apple says this is “expected behavior,” but it’s a misleading setup at the very least.
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Apple notes that this is the way it designed iOS to work. If you want to really stop all location tracking, you have to turn off the location services toggle. This is not necessarily surprising, but Apple probably shouldn’t be telling people that its Location Services menu includes all the toggles they’ll need. It gives some location data collection special status, making it harder to disable. That’s not the kind of behavior we’d expect from a company that so regularly chastises the competition for its data collection practices.