[Star Traveler]

One can track data that is leaving an iOS device (that’s an iPhone, iPad or iPod). If that is happening - it will be seen by those who look at this stuff and look for problems. In all this time that the iOS devices have been around, I have never seen that reported,

NOW ... once again ... if data is going out of an iOS device it WILL BE SEEN by anyone who is examining such data. You can’t hide that. NO ONE has ever seen such data.

ALSO such data is going to have a “destination” that can be seen, too. There HAS TO BE an Internet address that the data is going to. You would find similar (and unknown) addresses across many different iOS devices.

Not only has NO ONE has ever seen such data going out - NO ONE has ever reported strange and unknown “addresses” that data was going to - from a series of different iOS devices.

If you have no data going out to a collection of unknown addresses — such things ARE NOT HAPPENING.

I can’t stress this enough that the data going out WILL BE SEEN. And secondly there WILL BE AN ADDRESS that it’s going to.

The iPhone and the other iOS devices DO NOT HAVE THIS HAPPENING.

[Windflier]

Thanks for the lengthy explanation. I just have no confidence that the gov’t isn’t secretly (and invisibly) monitoring ALL handheld digital devices, including the iPhone.

[OneWingedShark]

There HAS TO BE an Internet address that the data is going to. You would find similar (and unknown) addresses across many different iOS devices.

Not so - the data could be transmitted to (and embedded within) the data-packets sync-ing to cell-towers, matched by user [IMEI number] at some telecom facility and then sent to the feds. In such a setup no "target address" [IP or otherwise] would be needed.