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The company harvested iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent, a French regulator ruled. It's a rare privacy misstep for Tim Cook.
Facebook says privacy changes that Apple has made to its newest operating system will cripple the social-media giant’s ability to serve targeted ads to iPhone users while they use outside apps.
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Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.
Two years ago, Apple launched an aggressive battle against ads that track users across the web. Today executives in the online publishing and advertising industries say that effort has been stunningly effective—posing a problem for advertisers looking to reach affluent consumers.Since Apple ...
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Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown
Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it
We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions | Technology | The Guardian
Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones
An idle Android smartphone sends user data back to Google servers nearly ten times more frequently as an Apple device sends data back to Apple servers.
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
The next versions of the iOS and the Mac operating systems will block the social network's trackers.
A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately detect common but serious conditions like hypertension and sleep apnea.
Cardiogram and UCSF previously demonstrated the ability for the Apple Watch to detect abnormal heart rhythm with a 97 percent accuracy. This new study shows the Watch can detect sleep apnea with a 90 percent accuracy and hypertension with an 82 percent accuracy.
Un chercheur en sécurité russe a découvert une faille dans la synchronisation entre iCloud et Safari qui permettait de récupérer les historiques de navigation supprimés par l’utilisateur. Un comportement apparemment possible suite à une erreur de la part d’Apple, que le constructeur s’empresse actuellement de corriger.
Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant is creating chaos for people called Alexis, Alex and Alexa; TV sitcom tried to order milk