[Infowarrior] - Uber Removing Apple-Granted API That Could Have Let it Record a User’s iPhone Screen

[Richard Forno]

WTF Apple???  --rick


Uber Removing Apple-Granted API That Could Have Let it Record a User’s iPhone Screen

When the Apple Watch was first released, Apple gave Uber what's known as an "entitlement" to run a special API to improve performance of the Uber app on the wrist worn device. 

That entitlement made headlines today when security researchers told Gizmodo that Uber could have used it to record a user's iPhone screen even with the Uber app just running in the background. 

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https://www.macrumors.com/2017/10/05/uber-removing-apple-granted-api/