Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:30AM from the data-rich dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Apple on Wednesday began allowing users in the U.S. to download a copy of all of the data that they have stored with the company from a single online portal. U.S. users will be able to download data such as all of their address book contacts, calendar appointments, music streaming preferences and details about past Apple product repairs. Previously, customers could get their data by contacting Apple directly. In May, when Apple first launched the online privacy portal, it only allowed U.S. users to either correct their data or delete their Apple accounts.

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? by Cmdln+Daco · 2018-10-17 09:42 · Score: 1, Insightful

So what this tells us is that if you know somebody's Apple ID and password, you can download every other piece of information that Apple has on record about them.
What could possibly go wrong with that??