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Apple clarifies Safari Safe Browsing feature following Tencent data reports [u]

 3 years ago
source link: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/10/14/safari-on-ios-can-be-sending-your-browsing-data-to-chinas-tencent
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Following a report alleging that Safari was sending URLs to China, Apple has clarified that this is not the case and has detailed how the Safe Browsing feature works.

The Safari privacy notice that now includes mention of Tencent

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Comments (51)

gatorguy

said about 1 year ago

Yeah, I was waiting on this story to hit AI. What started out a a drip of China/Apple issues is turning into a faucet. 

Curiously while other parts of Apple's Chinese ToS appears only on Chinese handsets (ie iCloud), this disclosure of Tencent receiving browsing data also appears on US handsets. 

Before the expected sideshow of "Can't be worse than Google" begins Google uses a number of methods to ensure they can't know the exact webpage you are attempting to visit in any particular instance, maintaining user privacy in Fraudulent Website checks.  There is no such assurance from Tencent and it's automatically allowed unless you disable it. But that also requires Fraud warnings from Google be turned off as well which makes it not such a good idea to disable for many. The two services should have separate toggles., not an all or nothing.

CloudTalkin

said about 1 year ago
gatorguy said:
Yeah, I was waiting on this story to hit AI. What started out a a drip is turning into a faucet. 

This is really a yawn though.  Tencent already gets copious amounts of data from Apple users.  They get copious amounts of data from users of every platform... especially if those users are gamers.  It seems every site is copying and pasting the same info without actually paying attention to who the company is they're referencing here.  Tencent is beast.  They have been receiving more relevant customer data from all platforms for years.  Comparatively speaking this situation is nothing, but viewed through the lens of the last week of Apple's Chinese acquiescence, I can see why people are a bit up in arms. 

I've seen people on other sites yammering about how to turn off Safe Browsing.  As if that would stop the flow of info going to Tencent.  Ha! Complete waste of time.

gatorguy

said about 1 year ago
gatorguy said:
Yeah, I was waiting on this story to hit AI. What started out a a drip is turning into a faucet. 
This is really a yawn though.  Tencent already gets copious amounts of data from Apple users.  They get copious amounts of data from users of every platform... especially if those users are gamers.  It seems every site is copying and pasting the same info without actually paying attention to who the company is they're referencing here.  Tencent is beast.  They have been receiving more relevant customer data from all platforms for years.  Comparatively speaking this situation is nothing, but viewed through the lens of the last week of Apple's Chinese acquiescence, I can see why people are a bit up in arms. 

I've seen people on other sites yammering about how to turn off Safe Browsing.  As if that would stop the flow of info going to Tencent.  Ha! 

Agreed. Fraudulent Websites checks in a relative molehill in the larger data stockpiling picture. 


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