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Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 2 days ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (30 children)

Apple’s Cycle Tracking app is also locally and E2E encrypted in iCloud.

When your phone is locked with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID, all of your health and fitness data in the Health app, other than your Medical ID, is encrypted. Any health data synced to iCloud is encrypted both in transit and on our servers. And if you have a recent version of watchOS and iOS with the default two-factor authentication and a passcode, your health and activity data will be stored in a way that Apple can’t read it.

This means that when you use the Cycle Tracking feature and have enabled two-factor authentication, your health data synced to iCloud is encrypted end-to-end and Apple does not have the key to decrypt the data and therefore cannot read it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/120356

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Sure. It's encrypted. And your private data only stays on your device. Pinky swear.

With our 10 billion $ in ad revenue, you can trust that your data never makes it to a third party unencrypted 😚

Anti Commercial-AI license

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I’m not sure what that license has to do with Apple’s privacy policy. Apple uses ML to place ads alongside relevant content. They provide no customer information to advertisers. They generate so much ad revenue by keeping a sizable 30% from the advertisers.

https://support.apple.com/guide/news-publisher/earn-revenue-with-advertising-on-apple-news-apdd44eeeeeb/icloud

https://support.apple.com/guide/adguide/generate-revenue-apd51c721ca9/icloud

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago

onlinepersona posts that on every comment they make. They're licensing their comments under CC BY-SA-NC 4.0. Given the context of the conversation it may have sounded confusing.

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