After the better part of three years’ investigation, the European Union has announced…
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California’s data privacy law highlights growing frustration with tech industry
Driven by everything from the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandals…
Top voting machine vendor admits it installed remote-access software on systems sold to states
The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software…
How to make an anonymous call from your iPhone
If you want to make a call but don’t want to let the giant marketing company / slightly weird stranger…
U.S. Senator: Middlemen are selling Americans’ location to the highest bidder without their consent
Cellphone carriers usually ask for their customers’ blessing before listing their phone numbers…
U.S. House Republicans demand answers from Apple, Google on privacy, data practices
Four senior U.S. House Republicans sent letters on Monday to the chief executives of Apple Inc…
NSO Group employee allegedly stole company’s powerful iPhone spyware for personal profit
NSO Group sells some of the most potent, off-the-shelf malware for remotely breaking into smartphones…
How smart TVs in millions of U.S. homes track more than what’s on tonight
The growing concern over online data and user privacy has been focused on tech giants…
Significant artificial intelligence enhancements on tap for Apple’s platforms
WWDC 2018 introduced significant enhancements to artificial intelligence (AI) on Apple’s platforms…
Privacy on Facebook and Google is ‘like holding a gun to your head’
Vesselin Popov and his team at the University of Cambridge Psychometrics Centre have found themselves embroiled…
More proof that iPhone backdoors are a stupid idea: Massive cache of law enforcement personnel data leaks
A data breach at a federally funded active shooter training center has exposed the personal data of thousands of US law enforcement officials…
California lawmakers approve data-privacy bill despite opposition from Google, Facebook, advertisers
California Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed data privacy legislation aimed at giving consumers more control…
What is Exactis and how could it have leaked the data of nearly every American?
A company you’ve likely never heard of allegedly exposed some of the most personal data…
Exactis leak exposes 340 million personal records: Phone numbers, home addresses and religious beliefs were publicly accessible
Exactis might be fueled by data, but its recent blunder is a warning that any database without firewall protection…
Apple CEO Cook talks leadership, social issues at ‘CEO Initiative’ series
Apple CEO Tim Cook is unafraid to speak his mind on issues ranging from data privacy and immigration…
Facebook patents show it can predict when you’ll get married, change jobs, and die
Facebook has been widely recognized for the extreme lengths it takes to collect data on its users…
Silicon Valley execs will convene in San Francisco to discuss privacy
Privacy and government affairs officers from a number of the largest tech companies plan to convene..
In major win for privacy, U.S. Supreme Court says warrant required for phone location data
The US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of digital privacy…
How to keep your personal intimate photos off Apple’s iCloud
You don’t have to be a celebrity to be concerned about your privacy…
A bug in Apple Mac’s ‘Quick Look’ feature leaks encrypted data, researchers find
A bug in macOS can expose the contents of a user’s files, including document text and photo thumbnails…
Apple highlights user privacy as Facebook exec steps down
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook takes every opportunity to highlight his company’s commitment to privacy…
Apple’s App Store privacy crackdown may hurt Facebook’s Onavo app
Apple Inc.’s new rules for app developers limit their ability to harvest user contact data…
The 18 things you may not realize Facebook knows about you: Firm reveals the extent of its spying in a 454-page document to U.S. Congress
The creepy ways Facebook spies on its users have been detailed in a bumper document…
Apple cracks down on apps sharing information on users’ friends
Apple Inc. changed its App Store rules last week to limit how developers harvest, use and share information…
Apple and Google are heading in the same direction, but on different paths
Developer conference season is behind us, leaving in its wake a huge pile of software updates to come…
WWDC 2018: Apple’s counterintuitive business moves
Apple has always put forth the image that it cares more about surprising and delighting its customers than about cold hard cash…
Apple pummels privacy-trampling Facebook
In the early days of Apple, of course, the company’s Evil Empires were IBM and Microsoft…
Facebook confirms sharing users’ personal data with Chinese companies
Facebook Inc said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies…
Apple’s macOS Mojave removes integration with third-party internet accounts like Facebook
Dropping support for third-party social network accounts fits into Apple’s vision of enhanced privacy protections…
Apple, where’s the smarter Siri in iOS 12?
Apple this week had every opportunity to show off new voice skills for Siri…
Apple needs to advertise their strong commitment to privacy
The greatest commercial in Apple history — perhaps all history — did not show an Apple product…
Five potential game-changers Apple revealed at WWDC
Once a year, the world’s biggest computer company gives us its annual dump of new platform stuff for developers…
A look at Apple’s secretive strategies set to unfold at WWDC 2018
WWDC has always sought to offer Apple’s third party developers deeper insight into the company’s overall strategic directions…
Apple sees steep increase in U.S. national security requests
Apple Inc on Friday issued its twice yearly transparency report on government data requests, showing another sharp increase…
AgileBits releases all-new 1Password 7 for Mac
How do you store your passwords?
Apple now lets users download all the data associated with their accounts
Apple has launched a new Data & Privacy website that includes an option for Apple users to download all the data…
President Trump uses at least two Apple iPhones
The Apple iPhones are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency…
Alphabet Inc’s Google could face $4.3 billion claim in U.K. iPhone privacy case
iPhone users suing Google over data-collection claims may be seeking as much as 3.2 billion pounds ($4.29 billion)…
Five reasons to choose Apple Maps over Google Maps
Appel Maps was released in the fall of 2012 with iOS 6…
Here’s what Apple sent when I asked for all the data they had on me
Last week, I asked Apple to give me all the data it’s collected on me since I first became a customer…
Apple CEO Cook continues hammering Facebook over privacy violations
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook delivered more than a commencement speech at Duke University on Sunday…
Om Malik on Google Photos vs. Apple Photos
The improvements in Google Photos and lack of magic in Apple Photos sometimes make me wonder…
