It’s 3 a.m. Do you know what your iPhone is doing? Mine has been alarmingly busy. Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of.
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What Apple, Facebook and Google each mean by “privacy”
Apple, Facebook, and Google are all firmly on the record now: they agree that privacy is a good thing, that government should protect it, and that you can trust them to respect it. The catch: Each company defines privacy differently and emphasizes different trade-offs in delivering it.
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Phil Schiller Lays Out Apple’s Case for Cracking Down on Screen Time Monitoring Apps
Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple’s removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users to monitor usage of their devices or those used by their children.
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Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name popped up this summer on my list of “People You May Know,” the social network’s roster of potential new online friends for me.
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Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won’t Tell Me How
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected. Her name popped up this summer on my list of “People You May Know,” the social network’s roster of potential new online friends for me.
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Hack Brief: Turkey Breach Spills Info on More Than Half Its Citizens
The nation of Turkey has been reeling from terrorist bombings in its biggest cities, a teeming refugee crisis, and a president who wants to rewrite its constitution to give himself more power.
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