Privacy obsessed Apple had apparently provided Uber with a special private entitlement that allowed the app to record what happened on an iPhone screen, even when the app itself was closed.
Even though this sounds like a serious privacy violation, Uber says that the permission was being used to power one of the features of its app, as it helped “render Uber maps on iPhone and send to Apple Watch before Watch apps could handle it.”
Melanie Ensign, Security and Privacy communications at Uber, said in a tweet that this particular API was not in use and is currently being removed, though it’s bizarre to see it getting pulled only after the whole thing made the headlines.
Discovered by security researcher Will Strafach, the private entitlement to record what’s happening on an iPhone screen with the Uber app is said to be the only one e… (read more)
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