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Shadows of suspicion fall on the iPhone 11 Pro, one of the latest mobiles of the Apple brand, coveted by many and with a prohibitive price for so many others. Some suspicions that have to do with the safety of users and their private data. And it is that, apparently, this specific phone model would be collecting data from its owners, specifically the place where they are. And all this even if the user has expressly requested that they do not want to be geolocated. Well nothing. This model of iPhone bypasses this limitation and, intermittently, collects and stores data.
The iPhone 11 Pro always knows where you are
The security expert page Krebsonsecurity published a report in which it pointed directly to the iPhone 11 Pro and its possible tricks to spy on the user and collect data about their location. The Cupertino company ensures that, through its phones, “it will periodically send geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi access points and mobile phone towers to Apple (where compatible with a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used in order to increase said database, of massive sources of Wi-Fi access points and cell tower locations ”.
The same company shows the owner of the phone how to deactivate this collection of private information although, apparently, this gesture does little good. Researcher Brian Krebs discovered that some services on the iPhone 11 Pro (which are probably also found in other models of the same brand, although the latter has not been verified) cannot be disabled. When a user disables location services on their iPhone 11 Pro, a diagonal arrow icon appears to the left of the battery icon. Well, the system keeps asking, intermittently, for access to these services even though the icon appears and the user has disabled them.
This discovery is surprising because Apple has always maintained a high security profile in relation to its mobile phones. Three years ago they refused, for example, the FBI to have access to one of their devices, (although in the end they ended up having access to it) that was involved in a terrorist attack in San Bernardino. In addition, its own browser (Safari), has among its functions to disable location tracking on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
