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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:30AM (#21521823)
A likely-good-enough fix would be for Apple to first make extremely clear that this is not allowed, then catch one ad framework/library provider violating the rule and ban every single app/publisher using it to ensure the rule is actually taken seriously.
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by scarface74 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:30AM (#21522652)
How do you “catch” them? The ID is sent from the app and not in plaintext.
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by tgsovlerkhgsel on Friday November 22, 2019 @01:23AM (#21603284)
Through the usual software analysis methods (reverse engineering, static and dynamic analysis, ...)
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by afiori on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:07AM (#21523567)
I imagine with the usual review process
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Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? by scarface74 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:51PM (#21531616)
The review process can’t tell the contents of the data being sent back.
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