Last week, the Chinese government media said that the iPhone is a threat to national security China. According to them, tracking a user's location, the U.S. company can monitor the economic situation in the country and even to reveal state secrets. And an official response from Apple did not have to wait long.
According to AppleInsider, Apple has denied accusations by Chinese television in its address. The corresponding statement was published by the press service of the corporation on its official website. It says that Apple does not collect data on the location of mobile users, and does everything possible to ensure the safety of user data.
Apple is not tracking the location of users. We have never done this and do not plan to do in the future. Information about haunted places is only stored in the device memory is encrypted and is not connected to iTunes or iCloud. Additionally, the user can at any time disable this feature through privacy settings, - said Apple communique.
The company does not have access to information about the most visited places and the location of the user. And other applications also can not get access to this sensitive data. View this information can only be initiated by the user of the mobile device after successfully entering the password.
"Apple has never worked with any of the government agencies in any country of the world, they did not transmit the data and did not provide access to their servers," - says the company.