Apple Allows Uber to Use a Powerful Feature that Lets it Record iPhone Screen

What could possibly go wrong when your privacy and phone are given “selectively” without your knowledge or ability to intervene?  What happens when Uber is hijacked?  Or Uber uses this access unscrupulously?

Security researcher Will Strafach recently revealed that Apple selectively grants (what’s known as an “entitlement“) Uber a powerful ability to use the newly introduced screen-recording API with intent to improve the performance of the Uber app on Apple Watch.

The screen-recording API allows the Uber app to record user’s screen information even when the app is closed, giving Uber access to all the personal information passing through an iPhone screen.

What’s more? The company’s access to such permission could make this data vulnerable to hackers if they, somehow, able to hijack Uber’s software.

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Source: Apple Allows Uber to Use a Powerful Feature that Lets it Record iPhone Screen


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