This week we echoed a video of a security researcher where you could clearly see how an iPhone 11 Pro continued to track the location of users even if they had expressed their refusal to follow up. From Apple they responded to this security researcher stating that this is the most normal response of the operating system , but now this criterion has changed and quite once it has been exposed to public opinion.
Apple will give us more control over our privacy
Although as we say Apple’s response to this security problem was that “we do not see any real security implications, it is working as planned”, now they have wanted more details about it. According to the company, this location data is used to disable ultra-broadband technology in certain prohibited areas. Specifically Apple has shared this reason on TechCrunch in this way:
Ultra-broadband technology is an industry standard technology and is subject to international regulatory requirements that require it to be deactivated in certain places. iOS uses location services to help determine if the iPhone is in these prohibited locations to disable ultra-broadband and comply with regulations.
In addition, they wanted to emphasize that Apple does not collect any of this data, but is managed by the device itself in order to comply with the ultra-bandwidth regulations. Although at first there was no way to disable this tracking, now things have changed and quite a bit.
According to statements by Apple managers to TechCrunch , a future update of the operating system is expected to include the possibility of deactivating the entire tracking of the operating system if we want to. We believe that this is the most appropriate for all of us if we seek to keep our privacy safe.
A company that boasts to protect the privacy of its users cannot say that although we ask that the iPhone not be tracked, it continues to do so as normal. We do not see badly that the iPhone has to track us for some reason like this that they comment, but what we do not see logical is that they do not explain it in this way. On the contrary, this security investigator was not given details, only that it was the most normal thing but now that it has already gone public and they have had to give explanations.
Leave us in the comments box what do you think of this measure that Apple will take in a future update of the operating system.
