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How to delete the search, browsing and viewing history Google keeps on you
Google is making it easier to see the search, browsing and YouTube viewing history it keeps on you…
Apple is reportedly removing apps that share your location data with third parties
Apple is also cracking down on instances where the data is used for purposes unrelated to improving the user experience…
Zuckerberg vs. Cook is more than just Facebook vs. Apple
For over a century, ads were the driving force behind newspapers and magazines, and then TV…
Apple responds to personal data request with 9MB file: The personal data archives from Facebook and Google were 881MB and 243MB respectively
Following Facebook’s acknowledgement that it had let a political ad targeting firm scrape the personal data of millions of users…
Apple is struggling to stop a ‘skeleton key’ hack on home Wi-Fi
Even with all Apple’s expertise and investment in cybersecurity, there are some security problems that are so intractable…
Apple kills photo-hiding ‘calculator’ app amid police investigation
Apple has removed the popular app, Calculator%, from its iOS App Store, just days after officials…
Russia wants Apple to ban secure, encrypted messaging app Telegram from App Store
Russia’s state telecommunications regulator wants Apple and Google to remove the Telegram messenger app…
Fired FBI director James Comey reveals how Apple’s encryption efforts drove him crazy
Fired FBI director James Comey writes about President Trump while also addressing other aspects of his career…
Everything you need to know about Apple’s GDPR privacy upgrade
Apple is updating its products and services to bring them in line with the EU’s forthcoming privacy protection rules…
Apple CEO Cook: ‘Privacy to us is a human right… a civil liberty’
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Washington D.C. Tuesday to testify before Congress about customer privacy…
Apple needs more than HomePod to play in smart home
When Apple announced in 2014 that it was creating the HomeKit for iOS devices…
How Apple’s HomeKit broke my digital heart
When Apple first announced HomeKit in 2014 I hoped it would be the unifying platform…
Apple to launch new Apple ID website to let users download a copy of all their data
Apple Inc. is revamping privacy controls for its devices and cloud services…
Apple looks to win back students and teachers with new low-cost iPads
Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce new low-cost iPads and education software next week…
How to block Facebook completely from your Mac
Even if you deleted your Facebook account, Facebook can still track you around the web like Google does…
How Facebook made it impossible to delete Facebook
To say Facebook has had a rough time of it lately would be putting it mildly…
What to expect from Facebook’s Zuckerberg if he testifies before Congress
A growing number of lawmakers are calling for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in front of Congress…
Why Facebook’s blatant disregard for users’ privacy could be very good for Apple
Apple has many competitive advantages…
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…
U.S. FTC reportedly probing Facebook’s abuse of personal data as UK summons Zuckerberg for questioning
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users…
Yet another Facebook debacle means it’s time for an Apple social network
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair…
The problem isn’t Cambridge Analytica: It’s Facebook
Cambridge Analytica garnered headlines across the world on Friday as Facebook formally suspended the company…
Delete your Facebook: The only way to win the social game is not to play
Facebook has been caught allowing the personal data of fifty million users — 50,000,000 — get siphoned off by political data company Cambrige Analytica…
How you access the super creepy data that Facebook has on you
Don’t be fooled by the ‘bring the world closer together’ motto: if Facebook’s here, it’s only to make money by selling ads…
Amazon’s Alexa is randomly laughing and nobody knows why
Some Alexa users may feel like they’ve been dropped into a science fiction story about an artificial intelligence gone awry…
Facebook asks users: Should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Facebook whether pedophiles requesting sexual pictures from children should be allowed on its website…
Tim Bajarin: Why Apple needs a ‘HomePod mini’
Apple has some real headwinds when it comes to the HomePod’s ability to gain market share…
Why Apple’s HomePod targets home entertainment, not a voice-first mobile-free world
Imagine turning your home into the bridge of the Star Trek Enterprise, where a disembodied voice deftly answers every question…
Cellebrite: We keep iPhone exploits secret for the public’s safety
Earlier this week, Forbes learned that Israel-based U.S. government contractor Cellebrite was touting…
Apple debuts new iPhone ads targeting Android upgraders
Appel is advertising the iPhone to Android users looking to upgrade to a real iPhone…
The U.S. government can now (probably) unlock every iPhone model in existence
In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement…
Companies scour social media for clues to your physical and mental health
Your digital footprint — how often you post on social media, how quickly you scroll through your contacts…
European Union seeks power to seize overseas personal data from customers of Apple, Microsoft, other tech firms
The European Union is preparing legislation to force companies to turn over customers’ personal data…
Dropbox files for IPO
Co-founder and CEO Drew Houston is Dropbox’s biggest shareholder…
The ‘No Google’ Little Snitch profile
I occasionally use Chrome as browser on macOS…
Bill Gates thinks Apple should unlock iPhones at the government’s request
In an interview with Axios, Bill Gates warned Apple and other tech giants that they risk the kind of nightmarish government…
iCloud Keychain: How to use Apple’s password manager for Macs, iPhones and iPads
“Apple’s password manager for Macs, iPhones and iPads, iCloud Keychain is designed to keep…
Study: Facebook is for old people
Facebook lost 2.8 million users under the age of 25 last year…
iOS iBoot source code was reportedly leaked by former low-level Apple employee who has more code not yet widely leaked
On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component…
iBoot leak means it’s time to dump those old iPhones and iPads
If you’re running an older iPhone or iPad that’s stuck on iOS 9…
