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Can Apple beat NSO Group, the world’s most notorious spyware company?
Numerous reporters, human rights defenders, and high-ranking officials across the world are increasingly becoming the NGO Group’s …
U.S. State Department iPhones hacked with Israeli NSO Group spyware
Apple iPhones of at least nine U.S. State Department employees were hacked by an unknown assailant using sophisticated spyware developed…
Apple begins alerting customers who may have been targeted by NSO Group
After Apple filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple…
Apple sues NSO Group over state-sponsored surveillance and targeting of Apple users
Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group and its parent company to hold it accountable for the surveillance and targeting of Apple…
Researchers: Apple’s delayed backdoor surveillance scheme doesn’t even work
A team of researchers have presented a simple method to evade detection by mechanisms such as Apple’s backdoor surveillance scheme…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency could provide multibillion-dollar lift to its own ad business
Apple could see a multibillion-dollar lift to its ad business from its adoption of App Tracking Transparency which offers users control…
Apple transparency report shows governments worldwide ask for data on tens of thousands of users
Apple released its Apple Transparency Report: Government and Private Party Requests for the second half of 2020 on Monday…
Farmville-maker Zynga’s ad business in focus as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency stings
Zynga’s ad revenue will be in focus when the company reports results on Monday, as investors track the impact of recent changes in Apple’s…
Apple VP Federighi delivers hypocritical speech on dangers of sideloading apps
Apple software chief Craig Federighi delivered a dramatic speech about what might happen if Apple has to allow iPhone users to sideload apps…
Peloton blames Apple’s App Tracking Transparency for new subscriber decrease
Peloton reported its earnings for fiscal Q1 2022 on Thursday. The company is partially blaming Apple, specifically App Tracking Transparency…
Twitter plummets 11% on concerns about Apple privacy policy changes
Twitter on Tuesday missed Wall Street expectations for user growth and investor concern about the potential impact of Apple’s privacy poli
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy feature had ‘modest impact’ on YouTube, Twitter revenue
Apple Inc.’s ad-tracking changes have had a “modest impact on YouTube’s revenues.” Twitter echoed that description…
Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy push hurts Big Tech rivals’ ad businesses
The latest earnings reports from Facebook and Snapchat show that Apple’s App Tracking Transparency privacy framework is having…
Facebook revenue misses estimates as Apple’s privacy rules bite
Facebook on Monday warned that Apple’s new Apple Tracking Transparency privacy rules would weigh on its digital business in the current…
EFF: Apple must abandon, not just delay, its backdoor surveillance scheme
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s delay of a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…
Experts detail flaws in Apple’s backdoor surveillance scheme, call it ‘dangerous technology’
A scheme proposed by Apple to scan user’s digital storage repositories, conducting backdoor surveillance, ostensibly for evidence of …
Android devices infected with malware 15 to 47 times more than iPhone
Devices that run on Android – a platform that supports sideloading – have an estimated 15 to 47 times more infections from malware…
EFF: Apple must abandon, not just delay, its backdoor surveillance plans
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Apple’s plan to delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for…
Facebook says it underreported ad performance due to Apple’s App Tracking Transparency
Facebook told advertisers in a blog post Wednesday that it’s been underreporting ad performance on Apple iPhones, citing changes…
Pro-privacy protestors nationwide rally to tell Apple: “Don’t scan our iPhones!”
This week in cities across the U.S., activists rallied at Apple stores demanding that the company cancel its plan to introduce surveillance …
Apple releases iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8
Apple today released iOS 14.8 for iPhone and iPod touch and iPadOS 14.8 for iPad, iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro which Apples says…
Apple brass should wake up: Examining the personal contents of users’ iPhones is a mistake
With protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at multiple Apple Stores across America set for September 13th, Apple brass should wake up…
Fight for the Future to hold protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at Apple Stores on Sept. 13th
Fight for the Future will hold protests against iPhone backdoor surveillance at Apple Stores on September 13th. Apple has currently…
EFF: Delays aren’t good enough; Apple must abandon its surveillance plans
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has eschewed Apple’s plan to delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries…
Apple’s minor App Store concessions fail to address top concerns of regulators, lawmakers
In the space of a week, Apple made two App Store rules concessions, which are the subject of lawsuits, regulatory probes, and legislative…
Apple delays ill-considered backdoor to scan Photos and Messages
Apple on Friday said it would delay a controversial backdoor to scan users’ photo libraries, ostensibly for Child Sexual Abuse Material…
There’s never been an x.8 release of iOS, but get ready for iOS 14.8 (imminent)
There’s never been an x.8 release of iOS before, but that’s about to change. Apple is prepping iOS 14.8 for release, and it’s coming soon…
Apple to release iCloud Private Relay as a Public Beta
Rather than a finalized feature, when iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey launch this fall, iCloud Private Relay will be a public beta…
Apple’s iOS 15: A modest release with major features delayed
Apple’s iOS 15 will arrive with major features delayed as the company continues its lamentable tradition of delaying features from its next…
Apple call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance, cameras to monitor work performance
Apple call center workers are being pressured to sign a contract that lets their employer install surveillance cameras in their homes to…
How to jailbreak your Apple iPhone
Jailbreaking your Apple iPhone offers users freedom of choice by opening up your iPhone to new OSes and apps outside of Apple’s App Store…
Facebook warns Apple’s App Tracking Transparency will slow growth
Facebook reported higher second-quarter sales and profit, but struck a cautious tone looking ahead, warning that growth could stall as Apple…
Facebook advertisers impacted by Apple’s strong privacy policies
Those who value their privacy are impacting advertisers on Facebook, who are losing access to some of their most valuable targeting data and…
Mobile advertisers expect Apple to destroy device fingerprinting with iCloud Private Relay
Apple won’t need to enforce a policy like App Tracking Transparency to kill fingerprinting on iOS devices, thanks to iCloud Private Relay …
Apple says Facebook-commissioned ‘study’ on preinstalled app usage is ‘seriously flawed’
The majority of apps used by iPhone and Android users are made by Apple and Google, according to a so-called “study” commissioned by Facebook
China demands that Apple pull Didi Chuxing ride-hailing app from App Store
China’s cyberspace regulator has ordered app stores to remove Didi Chuxing. This includes Apple’s App Store. Apple in 2016 invested $1B…
EU’s Vestager warns Apple against using privacy, security to limit competition
The European Union competition cheif Margrethe Vestager on Friday warned Apple against using privacy and security concerns to fend off…
Regulating Apple’s App Store likely to have unintended consequences
With lawmakers are circling Apple, regulating the company’s App Store likely to have unintended consequences, doing more harm than good…
Apple is working on a tamper-proof camera indicator for AR headset privacy
Apple is working on a tamper-resistant recording camera indicator designed to let people around an Apple headset user know if they are be
Google delays Chrome’s cookie-blocking privacy plan by nearly 2 years
Google has delayed a major privacy change to its Chrome browser, pushing back a plan to block third-party cookies until late 2023…
Former Minnesota trooper pleads guilty to texting himself nude photos from woman’s iPhone
On Wednesday, a former Minnesota state trooper pleaded guilty to texting himself intimate nude photos from a woman’s iPhone after she’d…
