Posts Tagged “Privacy”

YouTube CEO Calls EU’s Article 13 Financially Impossible November 13, 2018
Losing Health Data When Upgrading a iPhone (4)November 7, 2018
Backblaze bzfileids.dat Scaling and Little Snitch (2)November 5, 2018
MacBook’s T2 Will Prevent Eavesdropping on Your Microphone November 5, 2018
Apps Can Track You Even After You Uninstall Them October 26, 2018
Mojave Fixes QuickLook Cache Vulnerability With a DataVault (2)October 25, 2018
Tim Cook Calls for Strong US Privacy Law October 25, 2018
Sunsetting Google Plus (1)October 9, 2018
Why Matthew Green Is Done With Chrome (6)October 5, 2018
Facebook Access Tokens Stolen October 5, 2018
How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies (3)October 4, 2018
Vice News Interviews Tim Cook About Privacy (1)October 3, 2018
What Facebook Does For Advertisers September 27, 2018
Bypassing Mojave Security Protections (9)September 25, 2018
Security Flaw in “Nearly All” Modern PCs and Macs Exposes Encrypted Data September 14, 2018
EU Approves Controversial Copyright Directive (6)September 13, 2018
Feedbin Private by Default September 12, 2018
Mojave’s New Security and Privacy Protections Face Usability Challenges (8)September 10, 2018
Ghostery Lite (4)September 7, 2018
A Deceitful “Doctor” in the Mac App Store (3)September 7, 2018
Firefox to Block Trackers (5)September 5, 2018
Google and Mastercard’s Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales September 3, 2018
AEDeterminePermissionToAutomateTarget Added, But AEpocalyse Still Looms (15)August 31, 2018
Apple Events Usage Description (8)August 23, 2018
Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not August 15, 2018
Firefox’s New DNS Resolution (2)August 8, 2018
Instapaper Relaunches Premium Subscription August 7, 2018
What Can Bike Sharing Apps Teach Us About Mobile On-boarding Design? August 6, 2018
I Know What You Did Last Month: a New Artifact of Execution on macOS 10.13 (2)July 25, 2018
How Tinder Keeps Your Exact Location (a Bit) Private July 19, 2018
Tracking Your Phone’s Location With GPS Turned Off July 18, 2018
Mitigating Spectre With Site Isolation in Chrome July 16, 2018
The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail (1)July 3, 2018
Facebook Confirms That It Tracks Mouse Movements (2)July 3, 2018
Rebuilding Apple Maps Using Apple’s Own Data (17)June 29, 2018
Apple Event Sandboxing in macOS Mojave Lacks Essential APIs (3)June 28, 2018
Privacy News June 26, 2018
Quick Look Cache Reveals Sensitive Data From Encrypted Drives (5)June 18, 2018
Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0 (1)June 8, 2018
Facebook Posts Accidentally Made Public June 8, 2018
The Story Behind the Echo Eavesdropping Story June 3, 2018
Facebook’s GDPR-Related Dark Patterns June 3, 2018
Apple Hasn’t Blocked Telegram App, But Won’t Allow Updates (3)May 31, 2018
US Cell Carriers Are Selling Access to Real-time Phone Location Data (2)May 17, 2018
Some Thoughts on Google Photos vs. Apple Photos May 17, 2018
When Disappearing Messages Don’t Disappear May 15, 2018
Google’s Privacy Policy (2)May 14, 2018
Requesting Your Personal Data From Apple (1)May 7, 2018
Apple Officially Discontinues AirPort Router Line (22)April 28, 2018
Overcast 4.2: The Privacy Update (1)April 27, 2018
Examples of Dark Design Patterns April 20, 2018
Firefox 11.0 for iOS Has Tracking Protection on by Default April 17, 2018
OkCupid’s “Removed” Visitor API April 10, 2018
1.1.1.1: the Fastest, Privacy-first Consumer DNS Service (3)April 2, 2018
MyFitnessPal Data Breach (1)April 1, 2018
macOS 10.13.4 (3)March 30, 2018
Firefox’s Facebook Container (2)March 29, 2018
High Sierra Stored APFS Volume Passwords in Log Files (7)March 23, 2018
Cambridge Analytica Harvested 50 Million Facebook Profiles (3)March 19, 2018
GrayKey iPhone Unlocker (1)March 19, 2018
Old Steve Jobs Videos (3)March 9, 2018
Keeping Your Safari Data Private (8)March 6, 2018
Risks of In-App Browsers March 5, 2018
Respecting Privacy at Basecamp (1)March 1, 2018
Cellebrite Can Now Unlock Recent iPhones (4)March 1, 2018
The Rise of China As a Digital Totalitarian State March 1, 2018
iCloud in China and on Google’s Cloud (5)February 26, 2018
Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin February 20, 2018
Facebook’s “Protect” Feature February 15, 2018
The Mac App Sandbox and Non-Native Apps (7)February 13, 2018
Apple E-mails Developers Other People’s Search Ad Results February 6, 2018
Touch ID and the Fifth Amendment February 1, 2018
Fitness Tracking App Gives Away Locations of US Army Bases (1)January 30, 2018
Mac and iOS Privacy Guide January 29, 2018
Messages on iCloud in iOS 11.3 Beta (4)January 24, 2018
Apple Health Data Used in Murder Trial January 16, 2018
Chinese Firm to Operate China iCloud Accounts (2)January 15, 2018
ScreenShield: SDK to Prevent Screenshots (4)January 11, 2018
Tetris Entitlements January 11, 2018
Sharing Links From iOS Twitter Appends Tracking Garbage to the URL (1)January 11, 2018
Using HTTP to Avoid Mixed Content Warnings From Ads (6)January 9, 2018
Ad Targeters Are Pulling Data From Your Browser’s Password Manager January 1, 2018
OkCupid Removes Usernames December 28, 2017
Apple, CALEA, and Law Enforcement December 20, 2017
Ai.Type Keyboard Leaks Data for 31 Million Users December 18, 2017
ProtonMail Introduces IMAP/SMTP Bridge December 8, 2017
Learning With Privacy at Scale (1)December 7, 2017
Class Action Suit for Google’s Invisible Form Trick December 1, 2017
Uber Customer Data Breach and Cover-up November 27, 2017
Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled November 21, 2017
Skype Removed From Chinese App Stores November 21, 2017
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You’ve Ever Met (2)November 10, 2017
Facebook Solicits Nude Photos to Stop Revenge Porn (1)November 9, 2017
Google Docs Glitch Blocks Files for TOS Violations (1)November 1, 2017
Photos Machine Learning and Trusting Apple (4)November 1, 2017
Protecting Against Rogue Camera Access October 26, 2017
Stealing Sensitive Browser Data With the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API (2)October 23, 2017
The Camera Button (1)October 23, 2017
Apple Granted Uber a Background Screen Recording Entitlement (4)October 6, 2017
USPS “Informed Delivery” Is Stalker’s Dream October 4, 2017
Mac Keychain Vulnerability September 26, 2017
Safari 11 (3)September 20, 2017
Equifax Breach September 15, 2017
Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book August 31, 2017
TRAI’s Spat With Apple Over App Access to Messages and Call Logs (1)August 24, 2017
AccuWeather Caught Sending User Location Data, Even When Location Sharing Is Off (7)August 23, 2017
iOS 11’s Emergency SOS Feature August 18, 2017
Tech Companies Fighting for User Privacy August 15, 2017
A Brief History of the UUID August 14, 2017
How Facebook Squashes Competition From Startups (2)August 11, 2017
Using a Downloaded HTML File to Steal Files From a Mac (17)August 4, 2017
Apple Pulls VPN Apps From China App Store (7)July 31, 2017
Reddit Raises $200M, Rewrites Code (1)July 31, 2017
Timing 2 for Mac July 25, 2017
Does My Site Need HTTPS? (1)July 17, 2017
1Password Standalone Vaults and PasswordWallet (11)July 14, 2017
Daring Fireball Display Ads July 14, 2017
Web Form Data Sent Before You Click “Submit” (1)June 30, 2017
A Day Without JavaScript June 29, 2017
Little Snitch 4 Public Beta (3)June 27, 2017
Google Will Stop Reading Your E-mails for Gmail Ads (2)June 27, 2017
Apple Is Trying to Make iMessages More Private (6)June 15, 2017
Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (3)June 12, 2017
In-App Purchase Scams in the App Store (1)June 12, 2017
Basic Attention Token June 1, 2017
1Password Travel Mode (4)May 30, 2017
Twitter Abandons “Do Not Track” Privacy Protection (1)May 19, 2017
Secret Audio and Key Recording May 12, 2017
WhatsApp Extends Encryption to iCloud Backups May 10, 2017
HandBrake Proton Trojan (1)May 8, 2017
Uber Used Private API to Access iPhone Serial Number (7)April 24, 2017
Bose Headphones Spy on Listeners (1)April 20, 2017
For Sale: Your Private Browsing History (1)March 29, 2017
Allo Can Reveal What You’ve Searched For March 15, 2017
Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) (5)March 13, 2017
Nest Cam Waking in the Night March 7, 2017
Cloudbleed: Cloudflare’s HTTPS Traffic Leak (11)February 24, 2017
Overcast 3 (1)February 22, 2017
How to Stop Seeing Your Amazon Searches Everywhere February 13, 2017
Protecting Your Data at a Border Crossing (3)February 10, 2017
Vizio Tracking TV Viewing (2)February 9, 2017
Funding the Web (1)January 29, 2017
The Problem With AMP (2)January 18, 2017
Underpass 1.0 for Mac January 18, 2017
Hiya: Filter Spam Calls January 5, 2017
Amazon Echo Privacy (1)December 28, 2016
Evernote Privacy Policy (1)December 15, 2016
Uber Whistleblower on Location Privacy (1)December 13, 2016
Spark Mail Stores Credentials in Cloud (1)December 1, 2016
Apple Storing iPhone Call History November 18, 2016
iOS Forensics Trace Leakage (1)November 12, 2016
Fake Retail Apps Are Surging Before Holidays November 7, 2016
Inadvertent GitHub Private Repository Disclosure October 29, 2016
Google Drops Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking October 26, 2016
Little Flocker (2)October 20, 2016
Amazon Family Vault October 18, 2016
favicon.ico Is a Privacy Leak October 13, 2016
Yahoo’s FISA E-mail Scan October 12, 2016
Apple’s iMessage Metadata Logs (1)September 29, 2016
How Apple’s Hardline Privacy Policy Limits Key Features (2)September 28, 2016
Google Reneges on Allo Privacy Feature September 28, 2016
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Data on 500 Million Users in 2014 (3)September 28, 2016
Keystroke Recognition Using Wi-Fi Signals (3)August 26, 2016
Apple’s Machine Learning August 24, 2016
Browsing Your Website Does Not Mean I Want Your Spam August 20, 2016
OmniFocus Now Supports End-to-End Encryption (1)August 19, 2016
SwiftKey Keyboard Leaked User Information to Strangers (1)July 29, 2016
Pixellating or Blurring Text Creates Identifiable Patterns July 22, 2016
Medium URL Fragment Tracking July 18, 2016
The Pokémon Go Phenomenon (1)July 11, 2016
Android Flash Keyboard Hijacks Lock Screen, Violates Privacy July 7, 2016
What is Differential Privacy? (1)June 23, 2016
WWDC 2016 Links (3)June 15, 2016
E.W. Scripps Buys Podcast Company Stitcher June 7, 2016
Yahoo Disclosures National Security Letters June 2, 2016
Seven Hundred Million (1)May 31, 2016
Google Assistant May 19, 2016
Gboard (1)May 13, 2016
Proposed Client-side Encryption in OmniFocus (1)May 12, 2016
Apple’s Actual Role in Podcasting May 9, 2016
Updated CrashPlan for Home EULA May 6, 2016
Search Warrant to Force Unlocking iPhone With Touch ID (3)May 3, 2016
How iMessage Distributes Security to Block “Phantom Devices” April 22, 2016
Burr-Feinstein (5)April 11, 2016
WhatsApp Encryption April 7, 2016
What’s the Matter With PGP? (1)April 6, 2016
TextExpander 6 and TextExpander.com (60)April 6, 2016
Brave’s Payment Spec April 4, 2016
Restricting Your Cell Carrier’s Use of Your CPNI Data March 29, 2016
iMessage Attachments Security Flaw March 21, 2016
Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? (1)March 14, 2016
Most Android Phones Are Not Encrypted February 29, 2016
Apple Working on Removing iOS Backdoor (3)February 25, 2016
Use iTunes, Not iCloud, to Back Up Your iPhone (2)February 25, 2016
What Is the Secure Enclave? February 20, 2016
FBI Asks Apple for Secure Golden Key (17)February 17, 2016
Error 53 (8)February 7, 2016
Brave Browsers (2)January 22, 2016
Apple Eliminating Its App and Radio Ads (1)January 16, 2016
Unencrypted iTunes Backups Don’t Include Health Data (3)January 12, 2016
MacKeeper Exposes Data on 13 Million Customers December 16, 2015
The Secret Power of “Read It Later” Apps (1)December 3, 2015
Ads Use Inaudible Sound to Link Your Devices November 16, 2015
Apps Sharing User Data (3)November 6, 2015
OneDrive Reduces Free Storage to 5 GB, Maximum to 1 TB (1)November 3, 2015
iOS Apps That Collect Users’ Personal Info (3)October 20, 2015
El Capitan License in Plain English October 19, 2015
Apple and Privacy October 8, 2015
DirectLinks Safari Extension September 25, 2015
XcodeGhost (2)September 22, 2015
Facebook “Like” Button Tracking (1)September 18, 2015
Apple Tangles With U.S. Over iMessage Data Access (1)September 9, 2015
GasBuddy’s New Privacy Policy September 1, 2015
Shipping an App With App Transport Security (3)August 28, 2015
Creating a Kill-Switched VPN With PIA and Little Snitch August 19, 2015
How Your Phone’s Battery Life Can Be Used to Invade Your Privacy (2)August 16, 2015
Apple Pay to the Rescue August 16, 2015
Modern Web Ad Blocking (2)August 14, 2015
Student Loses Facebook Internship After Pointing Out Privacy Flaws (1)August 14, 2015
Phasing Out Google+ (1)July 29, 2015
Security and Privacy Changes in iOS 9 (4)July 24, 2015
iOS 9 to Block Abuses of -canOpenURL: (2)July 22, 2015
App Transport Security (7)July 17, 2015
Contacts Framework Identifiers (2)July 13, 2015
Safari Content Blocker and Web Advertising (9)July 12, 2015
iOS 9 Keyboard (2)June 11, 2015
Micro Snitch 1.0 (6)June 4, 2015
Tim Cook on Encryption, Privacy (1)June 3, 2015
Google Photos May 29, 2015
TextExpander 5 and Notification Center Privacy May 28, 2015
The Responsibility We Have As Software Engineers (1)May 24, 2015
Whose Phone Is This? (7)May 23, 2015
The Rush to “Deprecate” HTTP (2)May 17, 2015
Mac Firmware Passwords May 13, 2015
Google Hangouts Don’t Use End-to-End Encryption (3)May 13, 2015
No iOS Privacy Controls for Accessing Purchase History May 9, 2015
iOS 8.3 Blocks File Managers and Transfer Utilities (1)April 24, 2015
The CIA’s Xcode (6)March 10, 2015
Sunlit and Safari (1)February 3, 2015
Cloak and Private Internet Access (3)February 2, 2015
Using HSTS to Track Incognito Users January 13, 2015
Spotlight Suggestions and Web Bugs (3)January 12, 2015
Core Graphics Logging Input Data to /tmp Directory (2)December 5, 2014
Mail to Self Share Extension (2)December 5, 2014
Thwarting Twitter’s Upcoming Data Collection (2)December 4, 2014
Android vs. iOS Start Experience November 29, 2014
Police Can Require Cellphone Fingerprint (5)November 1, 2014
Yosemite Uploads Unsaved Documents and Recent Addresses to iCloud (36)October 26, 2014
Yosemite Phone Home (1)October 22, 2014
Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset October 22, 2014
Spotlight Suggestions and Privacy (5)October 19, 2014
It’s About the Encryption Keys October 19, 2014
What’s Really Happening With iOS 8 MAC Address Randomization October 11, 2014
Adobe Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their Libraries (4)October 11, 2014
Secure Golden Key (1)October 10, 2014
iOS 8 Location Permissions and Notifications October 9, 2014
In-App Browsers Considered Harmful (3)September 24, 2014
iCloud Security and Privacy Overview September 24, 2014
iOS 8 Encrypts More Data With Passcode September 19, 2014
Thoughts on Privacy September 18, 2014
Apple Addresses iOS Surveillance and Forensics Vulnerabilities September 13, 2014
Canvas Fingerprinting Instead of Cookies (1)July 27, 2014
Why You Only Have to Wipe a Disk Once July 27, 2014
iOS Backdoors, Attack Points, and Surveillance Mechanisms (2)July 19, 2014
Goldman Says Google Blocked E-mail With Leaked Client Data July 6, 2014
iOS 8 Privacy Updates July 6, 2014
History Theft With CSS Boolean Algebra June 25, 2014
iOS 8 MAC Address Randomization (3)June 13, 2014
eBay Security Breach May 21, 2014
You Can’t Escape Gmail May 15, 2014
The OpenSSL Heartbleed Bug (1)April 10, 2014
iOS Chrome Puts Per-Tab GUID in User-Agent March 26, 2014
The Right to Read User E-mails March 26, 2014
iSights Spying on Their Users Without Warning March 2, 2014
iMessage End-to-End Encryption (7)October 22, 2013
Can Apple Read Your iMessages? (12)June 26, 2013
NSA-proof Your E-mail in 2 Hours (2)June 25, 2013
Why Refusing Third-Party Cookies Will Be Worse for Privacy February 27, 2013

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