This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for "Google Authenticator," events are recorded as I type character by character. The leap between rows 78 and 79 is when I picked a suggestion. The timestamp of every event is recorded, i.e. Apple can calculate my typing speed 🙃.
[#]Privacy
[#]infosec #privacymatters
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@mysk@mastodon.social the worst part is that this isn't even surprising, it's standard practice, pretty much every app you download on your iPhone is also independently doing this for almost every search box you type into... most analytics SDKs have explicit examples doing exactly this, and Apple doesn't particularly care to do anything about this because it rocks the boat too much lol
Most websites record search inputs this way in their analytics too
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@froge This is true, but none of the other apps or platforms has erected big billboards saying "iPhone, that's privacy." Moreover, if the user isn't happy about an app's practices, they can use an alternative. For the App Store, there's no alternative.
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