Shit like that is why Apple devices are banned from our home network.
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catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Is Apple’s network opt-in?
knightly@pawb.social 2 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
why? what does their device locator service have to do with your home network?
I’m genuinely curious, because nothing from that service has anything to do with anything that might happen on your network
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shhhhhhhhhh. We hate on google, and microsoft all day long here. Didn’t you know every once in a while we like to hate on Apple, too? Variety is the spice of life, my friend!
knightly@pawb.social 2 months ago
why?
For the same reason that one might block ads or cookies, of course. I don’t want a third party corporation profiling the bluetooth devices in my house and selling data about me to advertizers.
what does their device locator service have to do with your home network?
Apple’s device locator service uses the internet to report device IDs and GPS coords to Apple.
I’m genuinely curious, because nothing from that service has anything to do with anything that might happen on your network
Ideally, that would be true. But device locators necessarily report their snooping using an internet connection, and if they’re on my home network when they do it then they’d associate my IP address with my location. That’s way more of my personal information than I want Apple to have.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
profiling the Bluetooth devices in my house
Uh, I hope you’re banning anyone with an iPhone from even getting within 10 meters of your house. Because their phone could easily just grab a list of all BT MACs (or hell, even WiFi MACs) it finds and then transmits that with its current GPS coordinates via its cell network. Doesn’t even need your network at all. And your wireless devices have to transmit their MAC addresses to work even if their not in pairing mode.
2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
According to Apple (and I’m sure people have already investigated it), location data is encrypted in such a way that only the owner of the device can read the transmitted location. So no, this isn’t going to “associate your IP address with your location”.
Only you can see where your AirTag is. Your location data and history are never stored on the AirTag itself. Devices that relay the location of your AirTag also stay anonymous, and that location data is encrypted every step of the way. So not even Apple knows the location of your AirTag or the identity of the device that helps find it.
(from www.apple.com/airtag/)
treadful@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I thought the whole reason for its usefulness (coverage) was that it wasn’t opt-in.