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Connor Jewiss

Does Apple keep your data as private as it says? A new study suggests it might not

IPhone privacy settings screen.

Privacy – it's one of the iPhone's top features, right? Never mind the iPhone, it's one of Apple's core principles. But it looks like privacy might not be as easy as you thought.

A study by Amel Bourdoucen and Janne Lindqvist of Aalto University has found that Apple's privacy settings are a lot more complicated than you'd think. Titled "An Inconvenient Truth: The Serpentine Dance of Apple's Privacy Settings," the study dives into the murky waters of how Apple's first-party apps, like Safari and Siri, are a bit too nosy for comfort and how navigating their privacy settings might require a PhD in Advanced Appleology.

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