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Apple Could Have Years of its Users' Browsing Histories

posted by martyb on Friday June 08 2018, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the coming-to-a-court-of-law-in-3...2...1... dept.

canopic jug writes:

Cleb Chen over at Private Internet Access' blog, Privacy News Online, writes that Apple apparently saves years of its users' browsing history if you have selected "sync browser tabs" in Safari. This web browser history is saved on their servers and does not disappear from them when you click "Clear internet history". Apparently this happens if you consent to sharing browser bookmarks and tabs between Apple devices. Denis Bosnic, who filed a GDPR request for his data from Apple, recently brought this problem to light and was shocked to find detailed logs of his web history showing URL and timestamp of visit. There is no explicit notice of this harvesting when setting up that feature in Apple Safari.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by arslan on Friday June 08 2018, @04:34AM

    by arslan (3462) on Friday June 08 2018, @04:34AM (#690201)

    Relaaaaxxx... if you know you're screwed and you can't beat em, there's always the option to join em. The cartel takes care of their own...

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