by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
The Apple iPhone is currently used by over 120 million people in the U.S., capturing almost 50% of the mobile smart phone market. (Source.)
Worldwide, about 1 billion people use Apple iPhones. (Source.)
If you own an Apple iPhone, do you have any idea how much of your personal life and data are now owned by Apple in exchange for allowing you to purchase and use one of their devices?
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Apple works hand in hand with the U.S. Government and their intelligence agencies to track as much information about you as possible.
In an article published today, June 1, 2023, Reuters reports that the Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is claiming that the U.S. NSA has used Apple iPhones for an American espionage operation inside Russia.
Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot
MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.
Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that several thousand Apple Inc (AAPL.O) devices had been infected, including those of domestic Russian subscribers as well as foreign diplomats based in Russia and the former Soviet Union.
“The FSB has uncovered an intelligence action of the American special services using Apple mobile devices,” the FSB said in a statement.
The FSB said the plot showed “close cooperation” between Apple and the National Security Agency, the U.S. agency responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security.
Kaspersky CEO Eugene Kaspersky said on Twitter that dozens of his employees’ phones were compromised in the operation, which his company described as “an extremely complex, professionally targeted cyberattack” that had targeted workers in “top and middle-management.”
Kaspersky researcher Igor Kuznetsov told Reuters that his company had independently discovered anomalous traffic on its corporate Wi-Fi network around the start of the year. (Read the full article.)
Apple has been awarded dozens of patents in the past few weeks for biometrics to be used with a national ID, including fingerprints, faces, and irises from your eyes.
Apple patents multi-function digital ID with liveness, other security features
A U.S. patent has been awarded for binding biometric authentication to a person’s digital ID. It likely will be combined with a patent-pending way to record biometrics from under a display.
Apple was given that patent this week. It covers Face and Touch ID authentication and automates many processes that involve a digital ID in the company’s digital wallet app.
Earlier this year, Apple applied for a patent to capture face, finger and iris biometrics through a device’s display.
The granted patent’s diagrams show how the owner of a phone, having enrolled in a state or federal ID program using their government ID and a selfie biometric check, would choose from a pick list of government ID agencies. That is where the person would link the identification data on the phone or other device to their state profile. (Read the full article.)
Apple won 65 patents today covering Apple Wallet’s Driver’s License & State ID Credentials, iPhone Sidewall Displays & Virtual Buttons
In September 2020 Patently Apple posted an IP report titled “Apple Patent Reveals a Developing Security ID System tied to a National Database to assist Brick and Mortar Merchants & more.”
It was the beginning of Apple’s move toward a national ID and driver’s license app for Apple Wallet.
In April 2021 Apple received their first granted patent for this project on a different technological aspect prior to Apple making this project public at WWDC-2021.
In December 2022 Patently Apple posted a report titled “A new Digital ID patent from Apple has come to light adding a new ‘Liveliness Check’ procedure plus adding ‘Touch ID’ to Credentials.”
Today, Apple was granted this patent. (Read the full article.)
Back in April we reported how Apple was teaming up with banking giant Goldman Sachs by offering attractive rates on savings accounts through their Apple Wallet. See:
Apple Turns iPhone into Ultimate Tracking Tool by Offering Banking Services – AppleID to Become National Digital ID?
Within four days of Apple’s launch of their high yield savings account, almost 1$billion was deposited into the new account by Apple iPhone users. (Source.)
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