Apple has informed app developers that it will no longer allow apps to use the unique device identifier or UDID after May 1, according to a post on Apple's developer website. Instead, Apple requests ...

Many of us feel a deep personal connection with our iPhones, and small wonder: the average person’s smartphone knows more about them than their spouse or significant other. Our iPhones hold our ...

Apple has instructed third-party developers to cease tracking iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users via the unique serial number associated with each one of its hardware devices. Widespread use of the ...

A group of hackers claims to have stolen 12 million Apple device IDs and other user information from an FBI agent’s laptop, and has posted some of the information online. The group, dubbed AntiSec, ...

Apple will officially start rejecting iOS apps that make use of the unique device ID or UDID, in order to track users. The company informed its developer community of the policy late Thursday ...

Apple has informed developers that it will begin officially rejecting newly submitted and updated applications that access the iOS device UDID. Apple says that this new policy will begin on May 1st.

Apple announced it was deprecating the Unique Device Identifier back in August of 2011, and over 18 months later the company will formally start rejecting apps that continue to use it. In a brief post ...

A hacker collective known as AntiSec has published over a million Apple device IDs that it claims were captured from the laptop of an FBI agent. If you own an iPhone or iPad, you might be wondering ...

Apple has been cracking down on apps that try to use a device’s UDID, a 40-character code that uniquely identifies each device the company sells. The Cupertino company’s apparent turnabout (it used to ...

A group of hackers released a file containing unique identification data for over 1 million Apple iOS devices and claim that the information is part of a larger database stolen from the compromised ...

“Data Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Paul Gelb, Head of Strategy at MoPub.