![]() Those who like the convenience of call syncing don’t need to do anything. Call log syncing is mentioned inĪpple’s security white paper released in May, a PDF document that few users would ever read.įor now, users have a choice to make. You can stop it by shutting down iCloud Drive, but that means you lose every other convenience of that service.Īpple also did a terrible job of disclosing this information. The second issue is that there’s no explicit way to turn call syncing on or off. Privacy-conscious users would not like this data easily accessible to law enforcement regardless of their proclivity for criminal activity. As the Intercept points out, four months of data records is twice as long as mobile carriers maintain that same information. What’s missing? Consent and controlįor starters, this call history data is the same information the National Security Agency was so interested in obtaining, which the public discovered during the But for those who don’t want to sync their call logs, or weren’t expecting to, it’s a huge problem. Call log syncing is a nice convenience for those who want it, which is why Apple did it in the first place. Why this matters: The problem isn’t so much that Apple is syncing call logs.
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