Representatives from several major technology firms will meet in San Francisco on Wednesday to address growing concerns over consumer privacy, driven to the forefront by new European regulations and public uproar over scandals like Cambridge Analytica. The companies include a part of the Information Technology Industry Council, a Washington trade group, as well as Apple, […]
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Apple is addressing security concerns in both iOS 12 and macOS 10.14 Mojave and outlined a number of new protections at its Worldwide Developers Conference, which is taking place in San Jose, California this week. Among the new measures to be implemented is extending privacy protections to the camera, microphone, and other sensitive user data […]
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 […]
Following up on an article covered yesterday, Apple has confirmed it will fix a privacy issue in which Siri can read aloud hidden lock screen notifications from many apps on iPhones. Per Apple: “We are aware of the issue and it will be addressed in an upcoming software update.”
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 […]