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iOS 18.5 silently triggers Bluetooth and GPS data collection – no user consent


Discovery of a critical Bluetooth and GPS privacy vulnerability in iOS 18.5 enabling silent BLE scans, covert GPS activation, and trust metadata exposure without user consent. Native Apple daemons ...

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