For the last few years Apple has worked overtime trying to market itself as a more privacy-focused company. 40-foot billboards of the iPhone with the slogan “Privacy. That’s iPhone” have been a key part of company marketing for years. The only problem: researchers keep highlighting how a lot of Apple’s well-hyped privacy changes are performative in nature.
Yet Another Study Shows Apple’s Hyped Privacy Standards Are Often Empty Theater
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What is Fog Reveal? Police use new app to track people without a warrant
New tool shows where and when people work and live, with whom they associate and what places they visit
What is Fog Reveal? Police use new app to track people without a warrant
Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites
Meta’s Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were those pages loaded in a stand-alone, WebKit-based iOS browser.
Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites
Anomaly Six Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA And NSA
Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.
Anomaly Six Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA And NSA
Donald Trump signs order banning transactions with 8 Chinese apps, including Alipay
Donald Trump signs order banning transactions with 8 Chinese apps, including Alipay
On a call with reporters shortly after the order was announced, senior administration officials declined to offer any specific evidence tying the blacklisted entities with alleged efforts by the Chinese government to obtain users’ personal data.
“The executive order is based on risk,” said one senior administration official, citing the large user base and high download numbers of the targeted applications. “We’re talking tens of millions of devices.”
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