Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Despite Apple saying that usage data it collects does not include personally identifiable info, researchers say it contains an ID that is unique to the user  —  Your iPhone’s analytics data includes an ID number tied to your name, email, and phone number, say researchers who uncovered other holes in Apple’ promises.

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Pathmatics: Apple’s Twitter ad purchases grew from $989K in October to $1M+ in November; Elon Musk said Apple “mostly stopped advertising on Twitter” on Nov. 28  —  Musk tweeted that Apple had all but stopped buying ads on Twitter.  The iPhone maker’s ad purchases had actually increased, according to an ad analytics firm.

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Google revamps its ad settings to let users disable targeted ads without turning off features like Web & App Activity and YouTube History  —  In a major fix, Google’s own privacy settings will no longer disable crucial features of its apps.  —  Alerts

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:
Facebook will remove religious and political views, addresses, and “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference, from user profiles on December 1  —  The update to the world’s biggest social network will prevent you from broadcasting certain details in your bio, a farewell to the early days of social media.

Parikshit Mishra / CoinDesk:
ConsenSys says it collects user data related to its on-chain wallet service MetaMask, following a similar announcement by decentralized exchange Uniswap  —  The firm said when using Infura as an RPC on MetaMask, a user’s IP address and wallet address information would also be collected.

Jody Serrano / Gizmodo:
How Wikipedia’s editors worked after Queen Elizabeth II’s death, debating what pictures to use and what to call Charles, creating new articles, and more  —  RIP, Queen Elizabeth II.  There are a lot of things to do in the digital realm when a monarch dies, and one of the first places people go when a famous person dies is Wikipedia.