privacy

Apple releases new video detailing App Tracking Transparency

App Tracking Transparency is here with iOS 14.5 and Apple has detailed the feature in a new privacy ad spot.

Wesley Hilliard | 3 years ago

Tim Cook told Mark Zuckerberg to delete user data sourced by third parties in 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook warned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to delete extraneous data about its users in 2019, a profile on the antagonistic relationship between the two men claims.

Malcolm Owen | 3 years ago

Apple reveals further details about AirTag's anti-stalking feature

Alongside iPhone notifications when someone else's AirTag is with you, Apple has designed more ways to prevent malicious tracking — or theft.

William Gallagher | 3 years ago

Browsers push back against Google's proposed FLoC ad system

Major browsers have rejected Google's new proposal for creating targeted ads, saying that they fear the system could put users' privacy at risk.

Amber Neely | 3 years ago

Tim Cook says Apple isn't against digital ads, wants user control and transparency

Apple CEO Tim Cook has clarified that the company is "not against digital advertising" ahead of the release of the App Tracking Transparency privacy feature.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Ad companies still thinking about 'fingerprinting' to work around Apple's privacy rules

As Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature nears in iOS 14, some ad firms may be resorting to "server-to-server fingerprinting" to get around the privacy restrictions.

William Gallagher | 3 years ago

Apple releases Transparency Report covering the first half of 2020

Apple has published its latest Transparency Report, detailing both government and private requests for data, app removals, or account preservations in the first half of 2020.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Data from 500M LinkedIn profiles up for sale online

Nefarious actors are reportedly selling the spoils from a LinkedIn scraping operation that nabbed data from some 500 million profiles, though the company claims the archive contains only public-facing information.

Mikey Campbell | 3 years ago

P&G worked with Chinese ad agency on bypass of Apple privacy feature

Procter & Gamble reportedly worked with the Chinese Advertising Agency to test a new data harvesting tool meant to bypass Apple's imminent App Tracking Transparency privacy feature.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

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Apple is continuing to research how to ensure the identity of someone presenting an iPhone to a passport official, or using any other digital ID document.

William Gallagher | 3 years ago

App Tracking Transparency lets users opt out of all ad targeted tracking

Apple's new privacy mechanisms in its App Tracking Transparency feature will allow users to opt out of other types of tracking beyond the company's IDFA tag.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Google starts funneling Chrome users into groups to ease targeted advertising

Google plans to eventually abandon third-party cookies and move to a new method of collecting data on users in aggregate to assist in targeting ads — and it has automatically opted in an unknown number of users to the beta test.

Amber Neely | 3 years ago

Apple's 'A Day in the Life of your Data' update includes new advertising explainers

Apple has updated its "A Day in the Life of your Data" report to include new information about ad auctions and attribution, as well as some of Apple's own ad privacy endeavors.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Massive Facebook data leak connected to undisclosed 2019 breach

Facebook on Tuesday responded to a recently reported data leak that potentially impacted more than 530 million users, saying the information was likely scraped from its servers in a newly disclosed 2019 incident.

Mikey Campbell | 3 years ago

All Google flagship iOS apps now feature privacy nutrition labels

All of Google's major apps on the App Store now feature privacy nutrition label data, per new Apple developer guidelines that took effect in late 2020.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Apple reminds developers to prepare for App Tracking Transparency ahead of iOS 14.5 release

Apple is reminding developers to update their apps for the launch of the App Tracking Transparency privacy feature in iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, and tvOS 14.5.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Over 500M Facebook account records leaked on hacking forum

A major cache of personal data for more than 500 million Facebook users has been published on hacking forums, in one of the biggest lapses of data protection for the social network so far.

Malcolm Owen | 3 years ago

Snap explored ways to bypass Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature

Snap, Inc., the creator of Snapchat, has reportedly explored ways to bypass an impending Apple privacy feature in an effort to continue tracking its users, according to a new report.

Mike Peterson | 3 years ago

Apple rejecting apps that collect data for 'device fingerprinting'

As part of previously announced plans to safeguard the App Store and users of its various platforms, Apple this week began to reject apps and app updates crafted with third-party SDKs integrating "device fingerprinting" data collection techniques.

Mikey Campbell | 3 years ago

Study finds Android shares 20x more data with Google than iOS does with Apple

A study conducted by a professor of computer science at Trinity College Dublin found that a typical Android handset collects some 20 times more data about its user than a comparable iPhone.