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Crime blotter: iCloud catches a BMW thief, NFL player's iPad pinched, and more

A theft and chase at the first Apple Store, an NFL star's iPad is taken, and massive thefts from Best Buy and Walmart in Florida, all in this week's roundup of Apple crime.

Stephen Silver 7 years ago 3

'Celebgate' iCloud hack perpetrator sentenced to 34 months in prison

A hacker who pleaded guilty for his part in the 'Celebgate' hack, involving phishing for credentials and attempting to access more than 200 iCloud, Yahoo, and Facebook accounts controlled by celebrities and other users, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.

Malcolm Owen 7 years ago 8

Electronic Frontier Foundation 'Fix it Already' program demands fixes to security & privacy problems

The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday launched "Fix It Already," a campaign directed at nine tech companies including Apple, pressuring them to solve privacy and security issues with their platforms.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 10

Podcast

Amazon buys Eero, March 25 for 'Apple News Magazines,' and more on the AppleInsider Podcast

Victor Marks 7 years ago 0

There is no difference between how Apple is handling Roger Stone's or the San Bernardino shooter's iCloud data

Once again, social media is ablaze with accusations that Roger Stone and the San Bernardino shooters are being treated differently by Apple in regards to iCloud data — but in the real world, there is no difference between how the iCloud data turnover was handled by Apple. AppleInsider breaks it down.

Stephen Silver 7 years ago 39

Apple agrees to bend to Russian law and store user data on local servers

Apple will at last comply with a 2014 Russian law requiring data on citizens to be stored on local servers — something that could affect both Apple and the country's political dissidents.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 36

Court rules man must be given access to husband's iCloud photos

Apple must provide a man access to the iCloud account of his late husband so he can retrieve family photos shot with an iPhone and a dedicated camera, a New York judge has ruled.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 31

Japan could expand local privacy rules to cover multinationals like Apple

Japan should consider legal changes so it can enforce domestic privacy rules on foreign tech firms like Apple and Google, according to a government communications panel.

Roger Fingas 7 years ago 1

Apple's FoundationDB takes new Record Layer open source, confirms tech underpins CloudKit

Apple database arm FoundationDB on Monday announced the open source release of FoundationDB Record Layer, a relational database management technology that powers CloudKit.

AppleInsider Staff 7 years ago 8

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