Take Control of iOS & iPadOS Privacy and Security, 2nd Edition

Control Privacy Leaks

What information should you be concerned about other people getting their hands on, whether it’s owned by you or about you? In this chapter, I take a walk through a few different ways to slice that question so that you know in the coming chapters precisely what you want to allow, monitor, and block.

The difference here between privacy and security is that to constitute an invasion of privacy it doesn’t necessarily require that a malicious party or malware obtain the information discussed below. Where it tips into security issues, discussed in the last section of the book, is when you’re explicitly preventing unwanted intrusion that is malicious, criminal, or on behalf of government agencies.

Where Data Lives

Data is a ...