Privacy Group Blasts Apple for “Compromising User Security” in iOS 11

Privacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation is criticizing Apple for the way it handles radio connections in iOS 11, explaining that the way the Control Center options work compromise user security in the new operating system.

As we had already reported to you not a long time ago, Apple has introduced a bizarre system in iOS 11 that makes Bluetooth and Wi-Fi harder to turn off on iPhone and iPad. In short, tapping the dedicated controls in the Control Center don’t actually disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but only disable the connection temporarily until the device discovers a new location whose settings are already stored.

So for instance if you tap the Wi-Fi icon in the Control Center, the iPhone is disconnected from the connected wireless network, but instead of turning Wi-Fi off completely, it actually only clos… (read more)

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