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T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful.
(www.droid-life.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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It’s also android phones. All of the shots in the article are of android phones.
This is likely just recording sessions of the carrier’s app, not everything on your phone. Session recording for CS and UX is pretty common these days. It can be impossible to identify a problem unless you actually see what is happening in the app.
That said, you have to ask for consent for this shit. A lot of companies don’t alert customers when they release a new tool that requires privacy consent.
Sorry to lazy to go through articles like this, do they mention if this is just in the US or something? Or do they also do this in the EU?
Does T-Mobile operate in Europe? I thought they were a US carrier.
Sorta yes and no. T-Mobile US is its own corporate entity, but their majority shareholder is Deutsche Telekom, and they take their name from that company’s mobile service brand.
They are German as far as I am aware, but that doesnt mean they do the same crap in Europe as they do in the US hence my question
The article doesn't specify where and they don't say T-Mobile US. They do say that it's the T-Life app that records the screen while using it.