App Store Personalized Recommendations and Keylogging
This week, Apple announced a series of discovery features that will personalize app recommendations based on users’ interests and behavior, providing a new way for developers to have their app discovered.
At Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), the iPhone maker introduced Personalized Collections in the App Store, which will showcase recommendations tailored to the individual. These will also include new “App Notes” that explain why the specific apps were recommended to you. Starting this week, you’ll find these new personalized suggestions in various places in the App Store, including the Apps or Games tab or on the Search tab.
Mysk:
Now Apple is putting the extensive identifiable analytics they collect in the App Store in action. They record every tap and there’s no way to turn it off.
They can even calculate your typing speed.
[…]
If you don’t like Apple Music privacy options, you can stream music from Spotify. But where else can you download apps on the iPhone?
The data is associated with your account and unencrypted.
Previously:
- No Siri AI in EU
- App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
- Keeping Your Data From Apple Is Harder Than Expected
- Lawsuits Over Apple Analytics Switch
- Analytics in Apple Apps
- Requesting Your Personal Data From Apple
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It's for reasons like this that it concerns me that Siri AI can supposedly read the screen and everything you're doing and adjust its behavior on that. It's a black box and we have nothing but the trust we place in Apple (which I think would be misplaced trust) that they're not going to be siphoning off and processing all of that data for all manner of privacy violating reasons.
Even if they aren't now, what do you think they're going to do with that data when their normal revenue sources inevitably level off and they still need to generate ever growing profits?
> But I thought Apple cared about our privacy!
But they do. Please note that they do not allow any other company to sell you apps, ensuring that no other company can ever keylog you while browsing for apps on an iPhone. Doesn't that make you feel happy, warm, and safe?
