Risky Bulletin Newsletter
September 02, 2022
Risky Biz News: Academics find a tiny crack in Apple's Private Relay
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Since its launch, iCloud Private Relay has been viewed as a major win for consumer privacy but has also seen criticism from major telecommunication providers.
While not a secret, very few consumers know that their ISPs are tracking their web browsing history and then reselling it to advertising companies as a secondary source of revenue.
Being blocked from seeing a user's full traffic path by something like iCloud Private Relay—when this goes live—would more than likely put quite a hole in the pockets of these companies and explains why several of them had tried to lobby EU regulators and get the technology banned even before it was going to be released. Looking at you, Vodafone, Telefonica, Orange, and T-Mobile! Some UK ISPs also pointed out that blocking CSAM content may be impossible and prevents them from blocking malicious traffic; hence Private Relay needs to go, similarly to how they opposed to the rollout of DNS-over-HTTPS a few years back.