Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook denied that the company is a monopoly as the U.S. government gears up for a potentially unprecedented probe…
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U.S. moving toward major antitrust probe of tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google misuse their massive market power
Apple pulls iTunes pages on Facebook and Instagram ahead of WWDC
Apple has abruptly removed all social media content from its iTunes page on Facebook, including posts, photos, and videos. This appears to have happened within the past 24 hours…
Apple charts the future of private, premium tech – alone
Leading up to its 30th Annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Apple is channeling its unique hardware savvy to create a future that is powerful, premium, accessible to everyone, and private to yourself…
Inside Apple’s top secret testing facilities where iPhone privacy defenses are forged in temperatures of -40c
These chips are the great line of defense in a battle that Apple never stops fighting as it tries to keep users’ data private…
How to outsmart algorithms and take control of your information diet
Certain algorithms pull you toward the things you already know, believe, or like, and they push away everything else…
It’s almost impossible to tell if your iPhone has been hacked
Hackers have been breaking into iPhones allegedly using a powerful spy tool sold to governments…
What Apple, Facebook and Google each mean by ‘privacy’
Each company defines privacy differently and emphasizes different trade-offs…
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…
Apple CEO Cook discusses protection of customers’ private data: ‘You are not our product’
Apple CEO Tim Cook is worried about the protection of personal data…
Canadian watchdog to seek court order to force Facebook to follow privacy laws
Facebook Inc broke Canadian privacy laws when it collected the information of some 600,000 citizens…
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Technology needs government regulation
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for more government regulation on the technology industry…
Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of up to 1.5 million users
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts…
Internet consolidation via titans like Apple, Google, and Facebook opened the door to censorship
The artificial crime of ‘hate speech’ had to be invented because more direct and traditional methods of enforcing certain goals yielded little result…
Apple, Facebook, Google asked to pay for wind parks in Denmark
Apple, Facebook, and Google are facing calls to help pay for wind parks needed to power…
Apple, tech stocks drive S&P 500 near record
Technology stocks are extending their leadership on Wall Street as the S&P 500 trades near…
Linus Torvalds blasts social media as ‘a disease’
Linux don Linus Torvalds has spoken of his dislike of social media in an interview…
Facebook launches WhatsApp Business for iOS
Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a business version of its WhatsApp messaging app for Apple Inc’s iOS..
New York Times’ tech columnist deleted Facebook last year. Here’s what changed (and what didn’t).
When Facebook and its family of apps experienced a daylong malfunction last week…
Facebook stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text for years; Change your Facebook and/or Instagram password now
The Facebook source said the investigation so far indicates between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by more than 20,000 Facebook employees…
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton renews call for users to delete Facebook
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook, but…
Facebook and Google rush to remove live-streamed footage of New Zealand mass murder
acebook and YouTube are working to remove ‘violent footage’ of the New Zealand mass shootings…
U.S. federal prosecutors conducting criminal investigation into Facebook data deals
Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck…
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s simple solutions, like breaking up Apple, won’t work
Only when pushed to say it, Warren gives up the App Store…
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…
Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Apple, too
Warren said Apple uses its market dominance to squash competition…
Know when malware tries to access your Mac’s camera or mic with this app
I started covering the camera on my laptop around five years ago…
Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Amazon; affect Apple’s App Store
Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies…
Beleaguered Facebook’s reputation is plummeting
Facebook’s reputation took a deep dive over the past year…
FBI Director Christopher Wray continues pushing for encryption back doors
The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between…
Laurene Powell Jobs ready to invest more in journalism, says democracy at risk
Laurene Powell Jobs, billionaire philanthropist and wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs…
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…
Cellebrite, the Feds’ favorite iPhone hacking tool, is selling on ebay for $100 – and it’s leaking data
hen eBay merchant Mr. Balaj was looking through a pile of hi-fi junk at an auction in the U.K…
FBI: End-to-end encryption like Apple’s ‘infects’ law enforcement
Nearly three years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation abandoned an effort to force Apple Inc…
U.S. FTC’s Bureau of Competition launches task force to monitor technology markets
The Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition announced the creation of a task force…
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…
Apple fails to block porn and gambling apps abusing Enterprise Certificate program
Facebook and Google were far from the only developers openly abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate program…
Apple headlines coalition of companies urging Congress to save ‘Dreamer’ immigrants
More than 100 major companies including Apple are renewing their push for immigration reform…
Apple has proven just how much power it has over tech giants
If those companies want access to the 1.4 billion Apple devices on the market…
Apple finally stood up to Facebook and Google – and made a powerful point
Apple finally stood up to Facebook and Google on matters of privacy, and it made a powerful point…
