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Privacy Snapshot

What the published policy covers, and how much we found under each. Tap one to read it.

  • Sensitive Data 5 findings
  • Tracking 2 findings
  • Advertising & Profiling 5 findings
  • Sharing 15 findings
  • Controls & Permissions 15 findings
  • Other 3 findings

3 findings, in full

The first 3 of this report’s 15 key findings, complete — claim, reasoning, and the policy’s own wording.

Other Apple's web crawler collects public internet content to train foundational AI models

What this means

Apple uses a crawler called Applebot to collect publicly available internet information, which powers features such as search and trains its foundational AI models.

Apple uses a web crawler called Applebot to collect publicly available internet information to power features like search and to train foundational AI models.

Why this matters

Anything published openly on the web can become training material without anyone being asked.

What the policy says

To power features such as search and as a source for our foundational AI models, Apple uses Applebot, a web crawler, to crawl information that is publicly available on the internet. We have measures in place to reduce the amount of personal data we collect and make no attempt to connect data crawled to any individual Apple user, or to build profiles about individuals.

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Advertising & Profiling Apple's health data can include information used to infer or detect your health status

What this means

The personal health data Apple holds can include data that is used to make inferences about, or to detect, an individual's health status.

Apple's personal health data can include data used to make inferences about or detect an individual's health status.

Why this matters

A conclusion about your health is a different thing from a number you typed in, and this says both are held.

What the policy says

Personal health data also includes data that can be used to make inferences about or detect the health status of an individual. If you participate in a study using an Apple Health Research Study app, the policy governing the privacy of your personal data is described in the Apple Health Study Apps Privacy Policy .

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Sharing Apple may disclose your data for national security, law enforcement or other issues of public importance

What this means

Where Apple determines that disclosure is necessary or appropriate, it may disclose personal data for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.

Apple may disclose personal data if it determines disclosure is necessary or appropriate for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance.

Why this matters

Apple decides when this applies, and the last of those three is far broader than a court order.

What the policy says

We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate. We may also disclose information about you where there is a lawful basis for doing so, if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or to protect our operations or users, or in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale.

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  • Advertising & Profiling 3
  • Controls & Permissions 3
  • Sensitive Data 3
  • Sharing 3

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  • Other 2 more

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