Apple Keeps Track of Your iMessage Contacts

Apple has for a long time touted its privacy credentials. Its refusal to help the FBI unlock San Bernadino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone being a prime example. However, those privacy credentials have taken a knock with the revelation that Apple logs your iMessage contacts. According to The Intercept, the Messaging app communicates with Apple’s servers every time you contact someone. This helps to determine whether or not that person is also using Apple’s proprietary messaging system. If they are a fellow Apple user, your communications will take place via iMessage, complete with blue bubbles. If they’re using a non-Apple...

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