Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) purchased access to NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2019 after internal efforts to create similar iOS and Android surveillance tools failed.
The Facebook-owned WhatsApp regularly boasts of using end-to-end encryption and keeping communications between users private, but a report alleges that some monitoring of messages does take place, and that Mark Zuckerberg may not have told the truth to the U.S. Senate.
Your iPhone is keeping track of places you regularly visit, a feature of iOS that can cause some to worry about their privacy. Here's how to wipe Significant Locations on iPhone and iPad.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has responded favorably to Apple's announcement it would delay implementing its CSAM tools, but still wants Apple to go further and give up on the plans entirely.
An Apple artist has shared how she and colleagues hand-paint the giant building-sized "Privacy" iPhone ads — plus how involved the process is, and how she got to do it.
Apple has launched a new pop-up in iOS 15 to allow users to turn on or off personalized ads within the App Store and other Apple apps.
CEO Mike Sievert has issued a public apology for T-Mobile's failure to prevent the cyberattack that saw personal details of more than 50 million people stolen.
Jamf has published a report on the most common types of permissions that popular #iOS apps on the App Store — and its recommendations on which ones to avoid.
Apple's CSAM detection feature is the topic of Edward Snowden's latest editorial on Substack, with the former intelligence contractor and whistleblower turned journalist calling the strategy a "tragedy."
A non-profit watchdog organization claims that Apple isn't doing enough to protect children from adult content in the App Store, and also refuses to accept responsibility for the failures.
A man in Los Angeles County stole more than 620,000 photographs and videos from thousands of iCloud accounts with the intent to steal nudes — some of which ultimately ended up on porn websites.
Comedian and talk show host Bill Maher has waded into the debate over Apple's CSAM tools, declaring them a "blatant constitutional breach" against its users.
A pair of Princeton researchers claim that Apple's CSAM detection system is dangerous because they explored and warned against similar technology, but the two systems are far from identical.
China has passed one of the most restrictive data protection laws in the world, tightening control over how personal information is collected and used by companies in the country.
T-Mobile has confirmed that a massive data breach affecting both current and former customers is now worse than it originally reported.
Apple's introduction of CSAM tools may be due to its high level of privacy, with messages submitted during the Epic Games App Store trial revealing Apple's anti-fraud chief thought its services was the "greatest platform for distributing" the material.
Tech companies have eroded the trust of users in the industry, believes Apple CEO Tim Cook, with privacy becoming collateral damage from features in products that aren't thought through carefully enough.
More than 80 civil rights groups have sent an open letter to Apple, asking the company to abandon its child safety plans in Messages and Photos, fearing expansion of the technology by governments.
Of the total 47.8 million people whose data was stolen in the T-Mobile server attack, more than 40 million of them are former and prospective T-Mobile customers — and the company claims no financial information was compromised.
Corellium, an iOS virtualization firm that was recently sued by Apple, has announced a new initiative meant to foster independent security research — and the first project is inspired by Apple's CSAM scanning project.
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