http://gigaom.com/2012/09/04/anonymous-reminds-apple-udids-are-creepy/ Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/09/04/anonymous-reminds-apple-udids-are-creepy/#comment-974171 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:25:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558943#comment-974171 Yes, it is important to remember that there are legitimate reasons to identify a certain user of an app, for example, to block unwanted communications from that user (within that app).

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/09/04/anonymous-reminds-apple-udids-are-creepy/#comment-973635 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:23:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=558943#comment-973635 Apple did introduce an alternative in iOS 6, in the form of per-app/per-user IDs, i.e. an ID that is unique for a particular user-app combination. This ID allows the app developer to collect anonymous stats but not allow the developer to correlate behavior across multiple apps.

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