These Are The Limits Of Apple's New iOS 8 Privacy Features

BANGALORE: According to the experts, the privacy improvements on the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system iOS 8 provide adequate but less protection to its customers, as reported by the MIS Asia.

With the release of iOS 8, the Apple devices like iPhones and iPads are configured with a passcode that would encrypt most of the personal data on it and making it inaccessible without the four-number password.

Apparently, the idea is to join the encryption key to the passcode and make sure it never leaves the device. The Privacy experts said they supported Apple's move on the security, which they view as providing more control over the personal data of customers. However, they also said that the protection had its limits as most of its customers stored their data on their iCloud service.

"Unlike our competitors, Apple cannot bypass your passcode and therefore cannot access this data," Chief Executive Tim Cook said on the company's new privacy site.

"So it's not technically feasible for us to respond to government warrants for the extraction of this data from devices in their possession running iOS 8." "The fact that they now have to go directly to you, and can't do it without your knowledge, is a huge win for Apple's customers in terms of their privacy and security," Jeremy Gillula, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said.

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