“Apple makes it easy to connect and share your life with the people closest to you. What you share, and whom you share it with, is up to you — including the decision to make changes to better protect your information or personal safety.
If you’d like to revisit what you share with other people, or restore your device’s original settings for any reason, this guide can help you understand what information you are sharing via your Apple devices, and how to make changes to protect your safety. It includes step-by-step instructions on how to remove someone’s access to information you’ve previously granted: from location data on the Find My app, to meetings you’ve scheduled via Calendar.
If you’re concerned that someone is accessing information you did not share from your Apple device, this guide will also help you identify risks, and walk you through the steps to help make the technology you rely on as private and secure as you want it to be.”

Let's try and not use Zoom because

• They don't care about your privacy
• They don't care about your security
• They lie to you
• They are not trustworthy

It’s amazing that in an era in which tech giants erode privacy in the name of money with little semblance of morals, Apple positioned itself as the champion of privacy and shifted its business model around that. The details on how this feature is implemented in a way that preserves user privacy is amazing.

If the rumors of a Tile-style tag prove true... and you add that they will be implemented securely and privately as described... and you add that over a billion Apple devices around the world will help locating them... you have a pretty compelling thing going on. I will be buying a bunch.

Apps in the Kids Category may not include third-party advertising or analytics. You should also pay particular attention to privacy laws around the world relating to the collection of data from children online.

This is great.

In hindsight, it seems obvious to me that app developers would abuse "Background App Refresh" functionality of iOS to call home and send data.

So I went to Settings on my phone and found a giant list of apps with the Background App Refresh function turned on.

I turned almost all of them off. Especially those from companies whose business model relies on collecting my personal data: anything made by Google, Facebook (WhatsApp, Instagram), Amazon, Uber, Yelp, etc. Obviously, all those crappy adware/games my son downloads.

I only left the setting on for apps made by companies I trust because their business model is not about collecting data (Apple and to a lesser degree Microsoft) and only for apps I use often and I can see the value for the contents to be up to date by the time I open the app (Notes which may change on a separate device, Outlook, etc.).

The best part, this should improve my battery life – to what degree it's unclear and reduce my data usage.

I bet that Apple will, in the near future, default this setting to OFF and make apps ask you if you really want to grant them the ability to perform Background App Refresh.

Facebook wasn't really hiding this. It's there in plain sight for those that download their data (as shown in the article).

Not emphasized in the article is that this was possible on Android and not on iOS.

The title says it all.

Few people understand computer security, and that's ok because it's complicated. It's not ok when said people are making laws related to it. This article explains why some of the things that government agencies want aren't actually feasible nor a good idea.

This is great news for personal privacy and security, even when most users don't know anything about this and don't know that they care.

As if you need another reason to drop AT&T or Verizon. Not only do they rip you off, lock you in horrible contracts, sell you locked phones, etc. They also invade your privacy and track all the internet browsing you do through their network.

Law enforcement officials and even a Washington Post editorial are criticizing Apple's use of full encryption in iOS 8 and forward where not even they can break it. This is good for privacy and all these people are doing is spread FUD or displaying incredible levels of ignorance (or both).

“I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web. We aim to fix that.

"Our business model is very straightforward: We sell great products. We don’t build a profile based on your email content or web browsing habits to sell to advertisers. We don’t “monetize” the information you store on your iPhone or in iCloud. And we don’t read your email or your messages to get information to market to you."

A technical and objective analysis of the CarrierIQ software without the media hype nor FUD.

Facebook sucks when it comes to privacy. They walk the fine line between exposing all they can and pissing off your customers more than they should. I recommend you look into this script to help you verify your settings are properly configured.