Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of the company’s privacy features designed to mask their email addresses from apps and websites.
“Hide My Email” is a feature that allows paying Apple iCloud+ customers to generate anonymous email addresses that forward messages to a person’s private email address. Apple says it does not read messages that are forwarded. But the court documents show that this email privacy feature will not prevent law enforcement from discovering who owns an anonymous iCloud address.
