This is a decent step towards the transparency you might want to see in a company. Apple released its semiannual Report on Government and Private Party Requests for Customer Information for the end of 2017 on Friday. One of the chief revelations in the report is that Apple will begin reporting government App Store removal […]
Category: privacy
This definitely qualifies as something of a goof. TeenSafe, an app designed to allow parents to monitor their children’s online activity, was noted as saving users’ Apple ID passwords in unprotected plaintext form. The information collected by TeenSafe was hosted on Amazon servers, and also included device identifiers and the email addresses of parents, crediting […]
The debate continues. Apple, along with other major technology companies, have formed the privacy-focused Reform Government Surveillance (RGS) coalition as part of an effort to fight government agencies pushing for the addition of encryption backdoors. The RGS offered the following statement on Wednesday: “Recent reports have described new proposals to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and […]
With Facebook working to regain the trust of its user base, the company is now introducing a new Data Abuse Bounty program that will reward people up to $40,000 if a data abuse breach has been found. The company offered the following comments: We committed to launching this program a few weeks ago as part […]
This is definitely something Apple needs to fix in the next version of iOS 11. A privacy bug currently allows someone to access hidden message notifications on a locked iPhone by asking Siri to read them. As of iOS 11, users can set message notifications to be hidden on the iOS’ Lock screen, wherein you’ll […]