iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says [telecom]

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iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says

By Kim Zetter

APPLE EMERGED AS a guardian of user privacy this year after fighting FBI demands to help crack into [alleged] San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook's iPhone. The company has gone to great lengths to secure customer data in recent years, by implementing better encryption for all phones and refusing to undermine that encryption.

But private information still escapes from Apple products under some circumstances. The latest involves the company's online syncing service iCloud.