In a sense, iOS 13 isn’t organized by apps, it’s organized by your contacts. Your relationship, and plans with someone, are dictating how the OS responds and linking one app to another…
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Facebook app banned by Apple collected device data on 187,000 users
Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct “Research” app…
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg may have known of questionable privacy practices emails show
Facebook Inc emails appear to show Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg’s involvement in discussions about its much criticized privacy practices…
Silicon Valley congressman: ‘It is embarrassing how technologically illiterate most members of Congress are’
The congressman is working on the framework of legislation that would offer sweeping data-privacy laws in the form of network neutrality, greater transparency in data-collection practices…
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…
Facebook ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts of up to 1.5 million users
Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it may have ‘unintentionally uploaded’ email contacts…
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…
Beleaguered Facebook’s reputation is plummeting
Facebook’s reputation took a deep dive over the past year…
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…
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…
Should Apple’s power over Facebook worry the rest of us?
At around 2:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Facebook sent me an update about the controversial market research program…
Big surprise: Google is also abusing Apple’s Enterprise Certificate system to collect extensive data on users
It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps …
Apple blocks Facebook from running all of their internal iOS apps by revoking distribution certificate
Apple has shut down Facebook’s ability to distribute internal iOS apps…
Apple bans Facebook’s ‘research’ app that paid teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install…
Hidden documents reveal how Facebook made money by bamboozling children
Two Facebook employees deny a refund request from a child whom they refer to as a ‘whale’ – a term coined by the casino industry to describe profligate spenders…
Roger McNamee: I mentored Mark Zuckerberg. I loved Facebook. But I can’t stay silent about what’s happening.
I am disappointed. I am embarrassed. I am ashamed…
Apple CEO Cook calls for U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive federal privacy legislation in TIME op-ed
In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy — yours, mine, all of ours…
Senator Marco Rubio introduces privacy bill to create federal regulations on data collection
Senator Marco Rubio introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at creating federal standards of privacy protection…
Apple endorses comprehensive privacy legislation in U.S. Senate testimony
Bud Tribble, Apple’s Vice President of Software Technology, has provided the U.S. Senate Committee…