Jan Penfrat<p><a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>: We need to lock down devices against <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/competition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competition</span></a> to protect user <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>!</p><p>Researchers: The <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/AppleWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppleWatch</span></a> collects vast amounts of intimate <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> and <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/fitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fitness</span></a> data. Users have little choice regarding how this data is processed. We publicly <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/reverseengineer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reverseengineer</span></a> the watch's wireless protocols and discovered multiple <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> issues. We break out of Apple's <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/WalledGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WalledGarden</span></a> demonstrating practical <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interoperability</span></a> with enhanced privacy controls and data autonomy."</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>