Don’t worry, Apple isn’t intercepting all your iMessage contacts for police<div class="feat-image">
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The Intercept’s Sam Biddle <a href="
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/28/apple-logs-your-imessage-contacts-and-may-share-them-with-police/" target="_blank">published[/url] a story today citing police documents that he reported prove Apple logs every contact you type in iMessage to share with law enforcement without telling anyone. But it’s not exactly news. Apple doesn’t log every contact you type into your Messages app, and there’s already a lot of publicly available information from Apple about it storing contact info that could be shared with law enforcement. From
The Intercept:</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Every time you type a number into your iPhone for a text conversation, the Messages app contacts Apple servers to determine whether to route a given message over the ubiquitous SMS system… over Apple’s proprietary and more secure messaging network…The document implies that Messages transmits these numbers to Apple when you open a new chat window and select a contact or number with whom to communicate”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">To be clear, Apple isn’t actually sharing any of your
conversations — those are entirely encrypted and out of its reach– we’re only talking about contact numbers here. </span></p>
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Biddle makes two main claims:</span></p>
<p class="p1"> <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/28/apple-imessage-contacts-law-enforcement/#more-448281" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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