{"id":27242,"date":"2019-11-07T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27242"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T18:58:37","slug":"apples-new-privacy-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/apples-new-privacy-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple&rsquo;s New Privacy Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-reveals-major-update-to-its-privacy-webpage\/\">John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/news\/apple-reveals-major-update-to-its-privacy-webpage\/\"><p>With Apple&rsquo;s update to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/privacy\/\">its privacy page<\/a> today, the company has created a site that explains how privacy drives the design of its apps in clear, concise language. However, for anyone who wants to understand the nitty-gritty details, Apple has also published white papers and linked to other materials that provide a closer look at the issues that the main page addresses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&rsquo;m not thrilled with the Safari section and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/docs\/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf\">white paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/docs\/Safari_White_Paper_Nov_2019.pdf\">\n<p>Browsers are more convenient to use when information is synced across a user&rsquo;s different devices. For example, being able to access their history across devices means users can easily find the places that they&rsquo;ve been on the web, regardless of whether they&rsquo;re on their phone or their computer. Safari provides a secure way to keep information in sync across devices while protecting privacy. Unlike other browsers, Safari doesn&rsquo;t have a browser-level sign-in that automatically signs the user in to all the browser vendor&rsquo;s online services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead, macOS continually badgers you to sign into iCloud, and unless you specifically opt out using the checkbox that merely says &ldquo;Safari,&rdquo; it sends your entire browsing history to Apple. Nowhere in the app&rsquo;s interface does it say that it does this, and you can&rsquo;t opt out without also losing bookmark syncing. Whereas, Chrome does not badger you to log in, does not enable history syncing by default, and does let you sync bookmarks without syncing history.<\/p>\n\n<p>It also fails to mention that the Safe Browsing feature sends, from your IP address, information about the sites you visit to Google or Tencent.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/06\/siri-stores-encrypted-e-mails-in-plain-text\/\">Siri Stores Encrypted E-mails in Plain Text<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/01\/safari-safe-browsing-china-and-privacy\/\">Safari Safe Browsing, China, and Privacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/23\/intelligent-tracking-prevention-2-3\/\">Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/06\/keeping-your-safari-data-private\/\">Keeping Your Safari Data Private<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Voorhees: With Apple&rsquo;s update to its privacy page today, the company has created a site that explains how privacy drives the design of its apps in clear, concise language. However, for anyone who wants to understand the nitty-gritty details, Apple has also published white papers and linked to other materials that provide a closer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"3b6f2739-05c9-4dcf-8349-43835342ebc1","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-11-07T18:58:41Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AO28nOQXJTc-DSUODU0LrwQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,456,16,30,1666,355,103,269,96],"class_list":["post-27242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-googlechrome","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-privacy","tag-safari","tag-syncing","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27243,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27242\/revisions\/27243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}