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Apple unveils programs highlighting data privacy and security on Data Privacy Day

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 11:40 amNo Comments

In celebration of Data Privacy Day, Apple today unveiled a new set of educational resources designed to help users take control of…

Working M1 MacBooks from 2020 are being sold as scrap due to Activation Lock

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 10:39 am10 Comments

MacBooks that retailed for as much as $3,000 just a couple of years ago are being sold as scrap due to Apple’s Activation Lock security…

Apple launches major security updates around the world

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 1:37 pm2 Comments

Apple has launched its recent major security updates around the world. The three new tools protect users’ data while it is being stored…

Australian regulator miffed that Apple is not scanning users’ iCloud photos, videos, FaceTime chats

Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:35 am9 Comments

An Australian regulator, accused Apple and Microsoft of failing to preemptively scan users’ iCloud and OneDrive photos, videos, and…

How to set up Advanced Data Protection, end-to-end encryption for your iCloud data

Wednesday, December 14, 2022 10:07 amWednesday, December 14, 20225 Comments

For the highest level of cloud data security, you can turn on Advanced Data Protection. iOS 16.2 or later is required…

French privacy watchdog advisors wants Apple hit with 6 million euro fine

Monday, December 12, 2022 12:04 pm2 Comments

The top adviser to French data protection authority’s sanction body recommended on Monday that Apple should be hit with a 6 million euro…

FBI is ‘deeply concerned’ that they won’t be able to rifle through Apple users’ photos, videos, and other iCloud data

Thursday, December 8, 2022 3:03 pmThursday, December 8, 202224 Comments

Apple on Wednesday introduced Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, which uses end-to-end encryption to provide Apple’s highest level of…

Facebook’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy. Apple put a stop to that. Now what?

Thursday, November 17, 2022 3:34 pm5 Comments

For years, Facebook-parent Meta Platform’s profits depended on trampling it users’ privacy, but Apple put a stop to that with its…

Apple’s Federighi: Privacy and advertising can coexist

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 10:04 amNo Comments

Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi said advertising and privacy can coexist as the company’s push to give users control of their privacy…

If you value privacy, avoid these five apps

Thursday, September 29, 2022 9:43 am6 Comments

Are the apps you’re using protecting your privacy or are they collecting and sharing a pretty hefty portion of your private information with…

Facebook-parent Meta sued for bypassing Apple privacy rules to track users

Thursday, September 22, 2022 9:25 am5 Comments

Facebook-parent Meta Platform was sued on Wednesday for allegedly building a secret work-around to privacy safeguards that Apple launched…

Apple CEO Cook credits Steve Jobs for prioritizing user privacy

Thursday, September 8, 2022 5:02 pm11 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook credited Steve Jobs with making privacy a top priority for the company and said he largely still runs the company…

Major global VPN providers shut off servers in India to protest new privacy-destroying government rules

Thursday, September 1, 2022 1:18 pmThursday, September 1, 20229 Comments

Major global providers of virtual private networks, which let users shield their identities online, are shutting down their servers in India …

Apple’s top privacy executive set to exit company for law firm

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 4:17 pm1 Comment

Apple’s top privacy executive, Jane Horvath, will be leaving the company soon to work at a law firm, people with knowledge of the matter say…

Australia demands Apple, others share anti-CSAM steps, threatens fines

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 8:53 amTuesday, August 30, 20221 Comment

Australia sent s legal letter to Apple demanding they share their strategies for stamping out Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)…

Apple CEO Tim Cook: The Mac is now a totally different product

Thursday, August 25, 2022 11:54 am12 Comments

Popular Mechanics Ryan D’Agostino sat down with Apple CEO Tim Cook and discussed the Mac in the era of Apple Silicon, your right to…

Apple collects the least user data, Google amasses the most – study

Thursday, August 25, 2022 8:59 amThursday, August 25, 20224 Comments

Apple collects the least amount of private user data from its users, with Google, Twitter, Amazon, and Facebook collecting more personal…

Marketers cut back on ad spending after Apple gave users their privacy back

Tuesday, August 9, 2022 2:43 pm4 Comments

Marketers are cutting back on ad spending due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework that gave users their privacy back…

Apple’s anti-tracking privacy tech has significant impact on digital advertising

Tuesday, July 26, 2022 11:48 am1 Comment

Apple’s privacy policy aims to make users of Apple devices more secure and puts users in control of their personal data. This is, naturally…

Apple’s Passkeys poised to free us all from password hell

Thursday, June 16, 2022 1:30 pm2 Comments

Apple’s recently announced Passkeys may forever change the way we log in to our online accounts, finally freeing us all from password hell…

Germany examines Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy rules

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 9:06 amTuesday, June 14, 2022No Comments

On Tuesday, Germany’s Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) is looking into Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy rules…

Apple CEO Cook urges U.S. lawmakers to pass federal privacy law

Friday, June 10, 2022 1:16 pm9 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday sent a letter to a group of U.S. lawmakers asking them to pass federal privacy legislation…

Republican Senators propose barring Apple, Google from hosting apps that accept China’s digital yuan

Thursday, May 26, 2022 4:27 pm1 Comment

Amid fears the Chinese Communist Party’s digital payment system could allow CHina to spy on Americans, Republican Senators want to bar…

Apple’s new ‘Data Auction’ TV ad drives home the iPhone privacy message

Wednesday, May 18, 2022 4:41 pm3 Comments

Apple is known for many things, but its commitment to user privacy (excluding last summer’s disaster ) and its (sometimes) iconic ad…

CDC tracked millions of Amercians’ phones to monitor vaccination, lockdown compliance

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 1:25 pmWednesday, May 4, 202213 Comments

The CDC used location data from tens of millions of Americans’ phones to track compliance with lockdown and vaccination mandates…

Apple not benefiting from privacy changes that kneecapped Facebook

Tuesday, April 26, 2022 11:51 pm2 Comments

Apple released a new report on Tuesday which refutes accusations that it profits from App Tracking Transparency privacy framework…

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency works, but there are loopholes, bypasses, and outright violations

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 10:51 amNo Comments

Last year, Apple enacted App Tracking Transparency (ATT), a mandatory policy that forbids app makers from tracking user activity across…

Apple’s privacy features will cost Facebook out $12.8 billion this year

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 12:02 pmWednesday, April 13, 20223 Comments

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will cost Meta Platforms subsidiary Facebook $12.8 billion in 2022, research firm Lotame estimates…

Apple CEO Tim Cook warns that proposed antitrust legislation would make iPhones less safe

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 11:35 am5 Comments

Cook on Tuesday warned that proposed antitrust legislation in the U.S. and the E.U. would have the consequence of making iPhones less safe…

8.2 million U.S. customers impacted in Cash App data breach

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 4:53 pm9 Comments

Block — formerly known as Square — has confirmed a data breach involving a former employee who downloaded reports from Cash App that…

Apple and Facebook gave user data to hackers who used forged legal requests

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 4:43 pm4 Comments

Apple and Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, gave user data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials…

Under proposed EU law Apple would be forced to allow sideloading and third-party app stores

Friday, March 25, 2022 3:07 pmTuesday, April 12, 202219 Comments

Under proposed legislation recently unveiled by the EU, Apple would be forced to allow users to sideload apps from outside the security of…

Woz: Facebook is my least favorite ‘of all big tech’

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 5:01 pmWednesday, March 23, 202210 Comments

Steve “Woz” Wozniak said that he and his wife both recently deactivated their Facebook accounts over data privacy concerns…

Regulators will soon force Apple to loosen its tight grip on the App Store

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 1:48 pm14 Comments

As regulators from the U.S. to South Korea zero in on Apple’s high-margin apps business, Apple’s App Store may soon be forced to…

Republican lawmakers press Apple and FBI over spyware from Israeli NSO Group

Thursday, March 3, 2022 5:35 pmThursday, March 3, 20223 Comments

Two Republican lawmakers are pressing Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation about Pegasus spyware made by the NSO Group …

Saudi woman’s single iPhone revealed hacking around the world

Thursday, February 17, 2022 11:55 amThursday, February 17, 20224 Comments

A single iPhone, Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathlou’s, helped turn the tide against NSO Group, one of the world’s most…

Google yet again to weakly follow Apple with limited user controls for ad tracking across apps

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 8:58 amWednesday, February 16, 20223 Comments

Alphabet subsidiary Google plans to weakly follow Apple by offering limited user controls for ad tracking across apps that are less robust…

Facebook stock plummets 26%, sheds more than $230 billion in market value in single day

Thursday, February 3, 2022 4:27 pmThursday, February 3, 20225 Comments

Facebook parent Meta’s stock plunged some 26%, more than $230 billion in market value on Thursday after the company forecast weaker…

Second Israeli spy firm used now-fixed ForcedEntry exploit to break into iPhones

Thursday, February 3, 2022 10:09 amNo Comments

A now-fixed flaw in Apple’s software exploited by Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to break into iPhones in 2021 was also abused…

Apple’s user privacy controls damage Facebook’s ad tracking biz

Thursday, February 3, 2022 9:08 amThursday, February 3, 20224 Comments

On Wednesday, Facebook owner Meta Platforms posted disastrous quarterly results, blaming privacy safeguards for users from Apple…

Apple’s two-factor authentication autofill feature now blocks SMS phishing attacks

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 5:36 pmTuesday, February 1, 2022No Comments

Apple’s two-factor authentication autofill feature makes it easy to enter verification codes sent via SMS, but phishing attackers have begun…

Apple pushes iPhone users to iOS 15, iPad users to iPadOS 15

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 2:08 pm6 Comments

When Apple first unveiled iOS 15 and iPad OS 15, the company announced that the upgrade wouldn’t be compulsory for people who wanted to stay…

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