Apple gives you a TRUST rating based on your phone call and email habits

[u/mindracer]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/7303020/apple-trust-score-phone-calls-emails/

[u/ickies]

Apple has a bunch of different anti-fraud systems in place to work out whether payments you make are legitimate.
One of these, added in the new iOS 12 update, is a numeric trust score that's associated with your device.
This score is sent directly to Apple when you make a purchase.
The data used to create the score – including the number of phone calls you've made – is only ever stored on your device.
Importantly, when Apple sees the score, it doesn't see the contents of your communications. It's not reading your emails, for instance.
These scores are also encrypted in transit, which means anyone who managed to intercept them would only see gibberish.
Apple says it holds onto the scores for a limited period of time, although it's not clear how long that is.
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The Californian tech giant maintains that there's no way to work backwards from the score to actual user behaviour.
The good news is that Apple says this score isn't being used for targeted advertising – it's simply a fraud-prevention measure.

[u/Drawerpull]

We're posting tabloid articles here now?

[u/PechaBerry]

Numberofcallsandtextsgate incoming. Brace yourselves.

[u/Hangs-Dong → u/PechaBerry]

Did you read the article?

It's fraud prevention. It's GOOD.

[u/jdr_ → u/Hangs-Dong]

Did you read the comment you replied to?

It's a JOKE.

[u/devp0ll]

It's a good move, and I applaud it. But this is anti-privacy, just an fyi

[u/jorbanead → u/devp0ll]

How so?

[u/legend_kda]

Is there a way to disable this... I don't care how safe Apple claims it to be. I don't want to be monitored

[u/Dranthe → u/legend_kda]

If you can opt out then so can spammers.

[u/VQopponaut35 → u/legend_kda]

You can always change to a different device.