In a sense, iOS 13 isn’t organized by apps, it’s organized by your contacts. Your relationship, and plans with someone, are dictating how the OS responds and linking one app to another…
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Facebook app banned by Apple collected device data on 187,000 users
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct “Research” app…
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg may have known of questionable privacy practices emails show
Facebook Inc emails appear to show Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s involvement in discussions about its much criticized privacy practices…
Silicon Valley congressman: ‘It is embarrassing how technologically illiterate most members of Congress are’
The congressman is working on the framework of legislation that would offer sweeping data-privacy laws in the form of network neutrality, greater transparency in data-collection practices…
U.S. Republicans and Democrats agree on need for bipartisan privacy legislation; divided over giving more powers to FTC
Democratic and Republican lawmakers both stressed the need for bipartisan privacy legislation…
Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of up to 1.5 million users
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts…
Facebook’s so-called ‘pivot to privacy’ puts Apple in its crosshairs
The big question after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s ‘pivot to privacy’ was whether…
Beleaguered Facebook’s reputation is plummeting
Facebook’s reputation took a deep dive over the past year…
New York investigating at least eleven iOS apps for transmitting personal data to Facebook, including ‘sexual activity’
A New York regulator is ramping up a promised investigation of how Facebook Inc. gathered sensitive personal information…
Microsoft CEO echoes Apple CEO Cook: Privacy is a ‘fundamental human right’
Any company that develops solutions that do not prioritize trust on either Apple or Microsoft’s platforms must now consider themselves warned…
These apps are stealing your most private data and it should be a crime
Some of the most popular apps in some of the most popular categories are stealing your most personal…
You give apps your sensitive personal information, then they tell Facebook, even if you have no connection to Facebook
Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps; body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles, pregnancy status…
Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?
At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…
Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …
Apple blocks Facebook from running all of their internal iOS apps by revoking distribution certificate
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps…
Apple bans Facebook’s ‘research’ app that paid teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install…
Hidden documents reveal how Facebook made money by bamboozling children
Two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a ‘whale’ – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders…
Roger McNamee: I mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I loved Facebook. But I can’t stay silent about what’s happening.
I am disappointed. I am embarrassed. I am ashamed…
Facebook’s surveillance machine
Facebook’s business model involves having people go to the site for social interaction, only to be quietly subjected to an enormous level of surveillance…
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg AWOL from Facebook’s damage control session
Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain…
When President-elect Trump meets Apple CEO Cook and other tech leaders, jobs will be on the agenda
At the top of the agenda when President-elect Donald J. Trump meets with tech leaders on Wednesday afternoon: jobs, jobs and more jobs…
New Apple Report suggests governments everywhere are demanding customer data
Apple has published the latest edition of its biannual report on Government Information Requests…
Why Apple, Fox News, and Microsoft are suddenly working together
It’s not every day you see Microsoft and Apple or Fox News and NPR going to bat…
Apple supports Microsoft in U.S. data-privacy dispute
Some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc…
Cook, Zuckerberg, Mayer, other tech CEOs ask U.S. Senate to restrict U.S. spying
A group of prominent technology company CEOs, including the most prominent, Apple CEO Tim Cook…
Tim Cook likely to be asked to testify at NSA case in Germany
German lawmakers may call the heads of the largest U.S. technology companies…
How the NSA tapped AT&T’s network
In 2002, an AT&T technician named Mark Klein discovered that the National Security Agency had installed a secret monitoring facility…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA data collection programs
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
U.S. House passes bill to curb NSA’s data collection programs; Apple opposes over ‘unacceptable loophole ‘
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to curb some National Security Agency powers…
Apple to government authorities: ‘Show warrant to get data’
Apple will let its customers know if a government or law enforcement agency has requested information…
Apple, others to defy U.S. government authorities, notify customers of secret data demands
U.S. tech companies will ignore the instructions stamped on the fronts of subpoenas…
As U.S. government discusses expanding digital searches, ACLU sounds caution
Late last month, we reported on new federal efforts to gain an expanded ability…
Obama to meet again with tech CEOs about NSA spying
Top executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants will…
Apple co-founder Woz and Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee voice support for Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee…
US NSA used Facebook to hack into computers
The National Security Agency is breaking into…
Rand Paul: ‘What you do on your cellphone is none of their damned business!’
Paul put his concerns about the NSA on front pages with a class-action lawsuit…
Orwellian: UK government, with aid from US NSA, intercepted webcam images from millions of users
Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency…
Twitter threatens to sue Obama administration over government surveillance requests
Twitter says it is prepared to sue the Obama administration…
Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
A Norwegian member of parliament nominated former U.S. National Security Agency…
U.S gov’t reaches deal with Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn to allow data disclosures on national security orders
The Justice Department on Monday reached agreements with…
U.S. NSA watching, tracking phone users with Google Maps
The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been…
Apple issues update on U.S. NSA and law enforcement orders
Apple Inc. has released the following statement…
