The [REDACTED] Hacker - Episode 001 Trailer - Apple's Secret API

Sun, 24 May 2026 23:50:57 +0000

Apple has a secret API to spy on you and the reports coming in are not pretty...

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(with a Person of Interest twist 😀)

According to Gizmodo:

A new test of how Apple gathers usage data from iPhones has found that the company collects personally identifiable information while explicitly promising not to.

The privacy policy governing Apple’s device analytics says "none of the collected information identifies you personally".

But an analysis of the data sent to Apple shows it includes a permanent, unchangeable ID number called a Directory Services Identifier, or DSID, according to researchers from the software company Mysk.

Apple collects that same ID number along with information for your Apple ID, which means the DSID is directly tied to your full name, phone number, birth date, email address and more, according to Mysk’s tests.

The iPhone Analytics setting makes an explicit promise: Turn it off, and Apple says that it will "disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether".

However, two app developers and security researchers at the software company Mysk, took a look at the data collected by a number of Apple iPhone apps including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks.

They found the analytics control and other privacy settings had no obvious effect on Apple’s data collection. The tracking remained the same whether iPhone Analytics was switched on or off.

According to Apple’s analytics policy, "Personal data is either not logged at all, is subject to privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy, or is removed from any reports before they’re sent to Apple"

But Mysk’s tests show that the DSID, which is directly tied to your name, is sent to Apple in the same packet as all the other analytics information.

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