For Securing iPhone Users' Privacy
Apple is working on an anti-snooping technology that will prevent law authorization agencies from tracking cell phone user areas or read their messages. As indicated by a report in The Telegraph on Sunday, the iPhone maker has patented the innovation that encrypts data between an iPhone and a mobile network.
"The innovation would hinder so-called 'Stingray' boxes, which mimic phone masts and can be utilized to track phone users' locations and listen in on phone calls," said the report.
Stingrays can be exploited by hackers, too, to access mobile users' data. The Apple technology would put end-to-end encryption to a phone's unique ID, accordingly restraining the utilization of "Stingray" boxes used to follow clients' areas.
Also known as "IMSI" catchers, "Stingrays" are utilized by some police forces in Britain however the extent of their utilization has not been revealed. Apple is battling worldwide strain to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to access data from an encrypted iPhone.
Australia and Britain have passed laws toward this path while India is additionally considering a law that would give authorities access to certain data. Apple declined the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) request to unlock an iPhone owned by the shooter who killed 14 people at the Inland Regional Centre in San Bernardino, California in December 2015. The FBI at last accessed to the encrypted iPhone of one of the terrorists without Apple's help.
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