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apple to limit accelerometer and gyroscope access in safari on ios 12.2 for privacy reasons

Last month, Apple released iOS 12.2 beta with several new features, including Apple News Canada, TV Control Center, support for adding HomeKit-enabled TVs in Home app, and more..   Toggled off by default, this new setting must be turned on order for websites to display features that rely on motion data from the gyroscope and in iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch...   To test this, we loaded What Web Can Do Today website on iPhone running the beta of iOS 12.2.   With Motion & Orientation Access setting toggled on, real-time accelerometer and gyroscope data from iPhone.   With Motion & Orientation Access toggled off, however, only image of iPhone XS Max is shown without tech specs...   Samsung Within web-based interactive experience, developed by R GA to promote the brand's legacy and its Galaxy Note 9 phone, uses the accelerometer to let people explore the night sky...   By default in beta, Perhaps the setting will be toggled on, for example, or Safari could prompt users for permission to access motion data when necessary as it does with location data...   According to WIRED report the information could fuel various types of attacks, like using ambient light data to make inferences about user's browsing, or using motion data as sort of keylogger to deduce things like PIN numbers..   Apple should offer way to have interactive ads that rely on iOS to the company for review and eventual hosting once approved.   This way, they keep control of where that data goes, and Apple can take fee for the privacy and availability of such service that it hosts, adding another service-based revenue stream.   Read more
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