Apple Developers Claim App Store Analytics Are Not Anonymous

Mansana has always prided itself on being a privacy and user protection company, but according to an internal investigation, the tech giant may be going against its own methods when it comes to collecting data from the App Store.

According to the iOS developers themselves, users can be identified and linked to your account iClouddespite the fact that Apple has repeatedly stated otherwise.

This conclusion, of course, confuses Apple and exposes the difference between the policy Confidentiality that any user may think and claim to be protected, and the privacy policy that actually applies.

Well, in a series of tweets on Monday, according to Mysk App Research and Development researching Apple systems, found an identifier in their analytics data called “DSID”. This was later determined to refer to the “Directory Service ID” that is associated with the iCloud account.

🚨 New results: 🧵 1/6 of Apple’s analytics data includes an identifier called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is “Directory Service Identifier”, an identifier that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. This means Apple analytics can personally identify you 👇 pic.twitter.com/3DSUFwX3nV

— Mysk 🇨🇦🇩🇪 (@mysk_co) November 21, 2022

Apple App Store analytics can identify users

With that in mind, and if that “DSID” is indeed associated with the user’s iCloud, Apple may associate your name, email address, and other credentials. Media The Verge, upon hearing the news, quickly tried to contact Apple, but ultimately did not respond.

Of course, knowing this There are doubts about whether Tim Cook’s company is engaged in the sale of data. from users to third parties.

However, he is blunt here and states that his advertising platform does not associate user or device data with data obtained from third parties for targeted advertising, and that it does not share the user’s device or device ID with data collection companies.

Of course, despite this statement the question remains whether this data can be used for their own purposes, as there is evidence that he has a data collection method.

Despite all this, it still seems like there is something even worse, and the thread also points out that data continues to be sent even if device scanning is disabled in settingsand that Apple also sends your DSID to other apps.

In the last tweet of the thread, Mysk says: “There are only three things you need to know: 1 – The App Store sends detailed analytics about you to Apple. 2 – There is no way to prevent this. 3 – Analytics data is directly related to you.