56 posts tagged ‘Privacy’
RCS in iOS 18
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Juli Clover: This guide explains everything that you need to know about RCS, including how it works, how to use it on Apple devices, why you might not see it, why Apple decided to adopt it now, and the benefits that you can expect from RCS now that support for the feature is live.[…]Google’s implementation […]
US Officials Recommend Encrypted Messaging Apps
Kevin Collier: The hacking campaign, nicknamed Salt Typhoon by Microsoft, is one of the largest intelligence compromises in U.S. history, and it has not yet been fully remediated. Officials on a news call Tuesday refused to set a timetable for declaring the country’s telecommunications systems free of interlopers. […] In the call Tuesday, two officials […]
App Store Search Queries Appear to Violate Data Minimization Practices
Mysk: This is an example of what the App Store app shares with #Apple when you search for an app. Everything you type in the search field is recorded as an event and associated with your Apple ID before it is sent to Apple. When I search for “Google Authenticator,” events are recorded as I […]
Italian food delivery app Foodinho eats another privacy fine
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Not for the first time, food delivery firm Foodinho has been spanked by Italy’s privacy watchdog. Per Reuters, the Glovo-owned on-demand delivery app has been fined €5 million ($5.20 million) after it was found to have unlawfully processed the data of more than 35,000 riders registered on the platform. Issues identified included riders’ geolocation data […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Let’s Encrypt Is 10
Josh Aas (in 2014, via Hacker News): For many server operators, getting even a basic server certificate is just too much of a hassle. The application process can be confusing. It usually costs money. It’s tricky to install correctly. It’s a pain to update.Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation […]
Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors
Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the article. Something similar is now happening in India, where the Indian […]
The State of Mozilla
Bryan Lunduke (via Hacker News): The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)While the Mozilla revenue dropsAnd the Firefox Marketshare […]
iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves
Juli Clover: Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for forensic examination to spontaneously restart, reports 404 Media.iPhones that are undergoing examination have apparently been rebooting, which makes them harder to unlock with brute force methods, and Michigan police think that […]