Apple’s Hide My Email feature has always been a pretty good quality-of-life privacy tool. iCloud+ subscribers can access randomly generated email addresses that forward messages to their real inbox. This helps users avoid any apps or websites from seeing their actual address. Apple also states that it doesn’t read the forwarded messages either.
All of this makes it quite a handy tool that genuinely cuts down on spam, creating a distance between you and whatever sketchy service wants your email.
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But what it apparently does not do is hide your identity from law enforcement.
What’s going on?
Hide my email on iCloud+. AppleAccording to court documents seen by TechCrunch, Apple provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who had used Hide My Email addresses. One case in particular had the
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