The users of Apple us feel safe with the company. After the controversial of the famous “iPhone of San Bernardino” and the continuous statements public of the maximum leader of the company, Tim Cook, think that few doubt of that Apple is our data as if of a treasure is were. The company is currently aware that privacy and security are on the rise, and so far, except for security bugs that no company is exempted, we can be fairly confident that we are in good hands.
However, even assuming that our confidence is based on one hundred percent certain facts, the reality is that or so if you want Apple is free of a court order that forces them to provide certain personal data users to the police or judicial authorities. And this is precisely the problem that lies behind the information that the company stores on its servers referred to the contacts we have in the iMessage.
iMessage, would guarantee our privacy?
During the last months of March and April, the platform of Messaging iMessage of Apple experienced some holes of security that facilitated the filtration of photos and messages respectively. It was not the first problem of security to the company which has faced, and unfortunately for users, nor will be the last.
Apple acted with lightness and in no time had patched these security flaws. Even so, this made put of manifest that it career between companies as Apple to strengthen their systems of security, hackers and also agencies governmental as the FBI not was to cesar.
Apple has taken a great number of measures so that our information personal is keep in private. A good example of this is that the code of unlock of the iPhone, or the own fingerprint fingerprint, not is stores in the servers of the company. But this not wants tell that always and in all those cases our data are one hundred by hundred to except.
Metadata, that can be provided to the police
According to a report published by The Intercept, the metadata of the conversations that we maintain with our contacts through iMessage is stored on Apple servers. Here we can be calm however, this circumstance raises that the company could be forced to hand over to police this court order information.
The content of the talks is not recorded, but other times connections list, the date, the frequency with which we interact with a contact in particular, the IP address of the user and until certain information concerning the location. How is this possible?
When you write a phone number in iMessage to start a text conversation, Apple servers detect this number to determine whether the new contact iMessage. If it isn’t, the texts are sent through SMS messages and bubbles appear in green, while messages sent through iMessage appear in blue.
Having Apple in his power this information, the authorities could legally request these records, and Apple would be forced by law to provide them.
What Apple said, and what he said not
Apple said in 2013 that iMessage offered a level of encrypted from end to end, by what nobody, nor the police, could have access to them. While this is true, not said nothing to the with regard to the metadata, according to claim from Engadget.
Apple has confirmed to The Intercept that complies with them requests legal for these records accurate, but that the content of those messages still continues being private. Them true, as all know, is that them companies of telephony have State facilitating these data “from always”, and although Apple resisted the assaults of the FBI at the beginning of year e established a new system of files much more safe, to the end, seems that always is something that escapes to our control.
And despite all this, and this is a perspective purely personal, think that Apple is the company that best guarantees our privacy today, because if talk of Google or Facebook have for a while.
