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iOS privacy options

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iOS privacy options

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- [Instructor] Recently, Apple has taken some firm positions on user data privacy. Let's take a look at the privacy settings available to the user, let's go back to our phone. Here on the device we will select Settings and Privacy. Here in Privacy Settings, each one of the applications that can access an API on your phone is listed. For example, if I select Health, we see apps that have requested access to health data will appear here. That's true of each one of these applications. Let's look at Location Services. These three applications access location services. I can select to deactivate location services, but I won't at this time. Finally, down at the bottom of the screen are two critical assets, analytics and advertising. These become more effective, the longer you use your phone. If I select analytics, I can see all the ways that I'm sharing data from my device use. If I select advertising, I get options to limit ad tracking. I can turn it on to limit it, applying more privacy…

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