Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, two application developers and security researchers at software company Mysk, say: Apple collects extremely detailed information From users even if you disable tracking and reporting.

As Gizmodo found out, Apple’s analytics data is collected and sent from the iPhone. Regardless of whether users allow. And that happens with most Apple apps except for two: Health and Wallet.

These researchers showed that your iPhone is sharing data with Apple even if you don’t want to.

This unauthorized data collection cost Apple a lawsuit

Software company Mysk analyzed data collected by a number of Apple iPhone apps: App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books and Stock Market. They found that analytics control and other privacy settings had no effect on Apple’s data collection, while tracking remained essentially the same.

There are personalized ads, personalized recommendations, and iPhone share analytics. Disabling all these options is not trivial. Turning it all off, we didn’t notice any change in the amount or details of data synced with Apple.

Especially when the App Store is examined, it seems that the store collects information about everything you do in real time. Where you tapped, what apps you searched for, what ads you saw, how long you looked at a particular app, and how you found it.

Every touch you make is recorded and sent to Apple

Application also sent details about the user and his deviceidentification numbers, what type of phone you use, screen resolution, keyboard languages, or how you connect to the Internet.

Not too many problems so far and it’s pretty common. It is quite common to collect this set of data to improve applications, but that is not the problem. The worry is that since then Settings > Privacy > Analytics and improvements turning off sharing, Apple seems to keep collecting these dates

And that’s exactly what it cost Apple in a class action lawsuit filed in California:

The lawsuit accuses Apple of violating California’s Privacy Invasion Act. “Privacy is one of the main things Apple uses to differentiate its products from its competitors,” the plaintiff said. Elliot Libman, in the case, which can be read in Bloomberg Law. “However, Apple’s privacy guarantees are completely misleading.” The company put up billboards across the country with the slogan “Privacy. This is the iPhone.”

Apple has not made any statement at this time. about. He neither denies nor admits this accusation. We’ll see how it all ends, but it’s certainly a major charge for a company that prides itself on privacy.