> And I think Apple made it "easier to use SMS 2FA" in iOS 12 for the same reason.
Wait. You think Apple is selling your phone number to advertisers?
Wait. You think Apple is selling your phone number to advertisers?
Apple is making it easier to use SMS 2FA in iOS 12 (automated copy paste)
However Apple itself doesn’t use SMS for 2FA.
As for Apple they had your phone number since the launch of the iPhone (!). Never needed 2FA to know it.
And no, Apple isn’t selling your phone number.
Until they have bad iphone sales.
Given Apple's less than stellar track record toward developers, employees, and customers, Apple will do things for Apple.
There are also extrinsic benefits outside advertising. Apple, for instance, is also a member of PRISM and one can only imagine how many other surveillance programs across the world that remain classified. Companies are undoubtedly 'compensated' for their involvement in these programs, and the more information they have and can gain - the more valuable their participation would be seen as.
This conflict of interest is why I think we will never see any sort of significant guarantee of privacy at the federal level in the US. The more information companies obtain, the more information the government has access to.