Apple is a company that loves touting how they value the privacy of their customers, but recently, it seems that an incident occurred that called into question Apple’s commitment to user privacy. This comes in the form of Apple’s Gatekeeper tool that basically checks against Apple’s own servers to determine if a piece of software is legitimate or not.

However, recently following the launch of macOS Big Sur, Apple experienced some server issues that prevented certain services from working and also some third-party apps from launching. Researchers looked into the issue and found that macOS was sending details back to Apple’s servers about what kind of apps users were using, which led to some concerns that Apple was spying on its users.


However, the company is also acknowledging that some users might not necessarily with comfortable with this and that come 2021, Apple will stop logging user IP addresses during the notarization process, and that they will also be giving users the option of opting out of some of these security protections.

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