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Meta seeking unfettered access to iPhone user data via EU DMA interoperability requests (appleinsider.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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On its face, the EU DMA is meant to stop monopolies from abusing their market position, but Meta appears to be abusing this legislation in an attempt to gather unprecedented access to iPhone user data.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is (one of the reasons) why Apple have been so defensive about their ecosystem.

They have slowly been building their security to protect their customers from bad actors, as the bad actors have been slowing finding ways to exploit people.

In early versions of iOS, there was little to no security, all apps had unfettered access, Apple started restricting access to more and more of the users data, and the arms race began.

Now the bad actors have tricked legislators into violating user security in favour of their scams and data mining reselling.

[–] BrikoX 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is a big misconception here.

Apple only limits 3rd party tracking and access. 1st party tracking by Apple, a known bad actor, is not affected by all the security measures they implement.

Clearest example of that being, that Apple backups everything to iCloud of which they keep E2EE disabled by default. Hence, all the content being available in plan text to Apple and anyone else who can compromise your Apple account. Fun fact: that's where majority of celebrity nude leaks come from by the way.

And since the whole ecosystem is closed by design, you have no option to circumvent that unlike with open ecosystems.