Last Monday, Apple had reportedly rolled out with its latest iOS 12 update a ratings system that scores users based on the number of emails and calls a user makes. According to the company, the measure will help them identify fraud, but they won’t be...
Researchers from the GuardianApp Project have recently caught over a dozen of iOS apps collecting and sharing user location data with third-party companies. It is said that the apps would compel the user to provide it permission to access location data. Once permission is granted, the...
It was reported that hundreds of “black tech” or cutting-edge surveillance tech dominated this year’s China International Exhibition on Police Equipment in Beijing. It is said that the exhibition underscored the extent to which Chinese authorities are using technology to monitor and punish behavior that goes...
In recent comments to news website Axios, Bill Gates seemingly told Apple that they needed to be more accommodating to the government on the issue of access to data on encrypted devices, or the company may be subjected to regulation in the future. Gates argued...
Tory minister Matt Hancock was recently ridiculed for launching an app that had a gaping privacy hole which allows it to access photos in the user’s device even if it is denied permission. Hancock, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, was also...
The Verge recently revealed that Apple will be introducing a Privacy icon in upcoming versions of iOS and macOS as an additional privacy safeguard and transparency measure. As tweeted by user @CraftyDeano, the icon will appear whenever first-party apps or features request access to the...
Last Tuesday, DuckDuckGo announced that it has included a tracker blocker and a number of other privacy features in its revamped line of mobile apps and browser extensions for Android, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. CEO Gabe Weinberg says that the company’s goal ever since...
Earlier this month, researchers from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) discovered that sensor data on modern smartphones can be used by malicious apps to gather sensitive information about the user, and even use it to guess the PIN number on the device. By creating and using...
Last week, a Google security researcher announced in a tweet a proof-of-concept code for rooting iOS and Mac devices. Researcher Ian Beer, who is a part of Google’s Project Zero, also mentioned over Twitter last December 12 a memory corruption issue in Mac and iOS...
In a new post on its Machine Learning Journal, Apple explained how it uses differential privacy to protect the privacy of its user’s data. Apple collects user data such as keystrokes or visited sites, only when the user agrees to share usage analytics with the company....