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Title: Uber removing private iOS API that allowed them to record your display
Post by: HCK on October 07, 2017, 04:05:18 pm
Uber removing private iOS API that allowed them to record your display

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/uber1.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>Uber’s head of security communications has today announced that the company is removing access from its iOS app that may have allowed the company to record a user’s display unknowingly. Security researchers (https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiopz/status/915313096423612421) had noticed that Uber was given access to these private APIs by Apple, an unprecedented move from the security focused company.</p>
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