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Apple listens to Siri, Apple's $53.8B quarter & more on the AppleInsider Podcast

10 months ago

Apple listens to Siri, Apple's $53.8B quarter & more on the AppleInsider Podcast

This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, Brian Roemmele joins us to talk about Apple listening to some Siri recordings and why they don't need to. William is back to talk Apple Earnings reports and why selling fewer iPhones doesn't spell doom.

By Victor Marks | 10 months ago

Apple suspends Siri quality control program, will let users opt out in update

10 months ago

Apple suspends Siri quality control program, will let users opt out in update

Apple has temporarily suspended its Siri quality control program after a Guardian expose last week claimed private contractors are privy to "highly sensitive recordings," revelations that immediately raised the brows of privacy advocates.

By Mikey Campbell | 10 months ago

FCC adopts new rules to battle foreign robocalls, spoofed texts

10 months ago

FCC adopts new rules to battle foreign robocalls, spoofed texts

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to adopt an expanded set of rules that will enable the agency to more vigorously pursue international robocallers and bad actors sending spoofed text messages.

By Mikey Campbell | 10 months ago

Apple 'Privacy. That's iPhone' campaign billboards reach Germany

10 months ago

Apple 'Privacy. That's iPhone' campaign billboards reach Germany

Apple is continuing to expand its 'Privacy. That's iPhone' campaign into more territories, with more billboards in the series spotted in Hamburg and Berlin in Germany promoting the iPhone and iOS' data security credentials.

By Malcolm Owen | 10 months ago

Anti-robocall legislation sails through House by a landslide

10 months ago

Anti-robocall legislation sails through House by a landslide

A bipartisan act designed to combat unwanted robocalls in the U.S. passed the House of Representatives in a decisive 429-3 vote on Wednesday, pushing the legislation one step closer to ratification.

By Mikey Campbell | 10 months ago

Facebook fined $5B by FTC over Cambridge Analytica scandal charges

10 months ago

Facebook fined $5B by FTC over Cambridge Analytica scandal charges

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed on Wednesday it has agreed to a settlement by Facebook for violating consumer privacy in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, with the social network paying a $5 billion penalty and agreeing to new restrictions.

By Malcolm Owen | 10 months ago

Google settles three lawsuits over age discrimination, minors & illegal Wi-Fi hotspot data

10 months ago

Google settles three lawsuits over age discrimination, minors & illegal Wi-Fi hotspot data

Clearing some of its legal plate, Google this week reached settlements for three different lawsuits, most notably a 2010 class action over illegal Wi-Fi data scooped up by Street View vehicles.

By Roger Fingas | 10 months ago

Don't use FaceApp if you want to keep the rights to your photos

10 months ago

Don't use FaceApp if you want to keep the rights to your photos

FaceApp has added new age-based filters to their app, bringing it back into the public eye and back on to users' phones. However, if you want to keep your photos as your own, you probably shouldn't use the app.

By Amber Neely | 10 months ago

Lawmakers suggest Apple could do more to aid privacy reform

10 months ago

Lawmakers suggest Apple could do more to aid privacy reform

Apple's calls for stronger privacy legislation aren't backed up by action, privacy advocates and U.S. Lawmakers suggest, claiming the iPhone maker isn't doing enough to help produce better privacy laws, and in some cases is lobbying against some efforts.

By Malcolm Owen | 10 months ago

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Facial recognition bolstered by mass database scraping, but not from Apple

10 months ago

Facial recognition bolstered by mass database scraping, but not from Apple

Progress is being made in the field of facial recognition by the use of multiple photograph databases consisting of subjects who were not aware of their misuse, a report claims, but while many companies and researchers are collecting and sharing the images and resulting data, Apple is not one of the sources.

By Malcolm Owen | 10 months ago

Facebook reportedly fined $5B over Cambridge Analytica fiasco

10 months ago

Facebook reportedly fined $5B over Cambridge Analytica fiasco

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has reportedly approved a $5 billion settlement with Facebook to resolve the latter's privacy violations in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

By Roger Fingas | 10 months ago

Apple returns parental control app OurPact to App Store after February purge

10 months ago

Apple returns parental control app OurPact to App Store after February purge

Some five months after Apple struck parental control app OurPact from the App Store over user privacy concerns, the company reinstated the title this week without comment.

By Mikey Campbell | 10 months ago

Google Assistant voice recordings reviewed by humans include private conversations

10 months ago

Google Assistant voice recordings reviewed by humans include private conversations

Some voice snippets uploaded by Google Assistant are being reviewed by human contractors, as with Amazon Alexa, and can potentially include sensitive conversations, reports say.

By Roger Fingas | 10 months ago

'Sign in with Apple' may only limit tracking, not eliminate it

10 months ago

'Sign in with Apple' may only limit tracking, not eliminate it

"Sign in with Apple," launching alongside this fall's iOS 13, will make it harder for advertisers and other parties to track people — but data collection is possible, a report indicated on Thursday.

By Roger Fingas | 10 months ago

Apple's latest transparency report includes government demands for App Store removals, redacted NSLs

11 months ago

Apple's latest transparency report includes government demands for App Store removals, redacted NSLs

Apple on Tuesday published its transparency report for the six-month period ending in December 2018, revealing for the first time government requests to remove apps from the App Store and redacted national security letters dating back to 2016.

By Mikey Campbell | 11 months ago

New Apple video ads sell App Store & iMessage security, recycling efforts

11 months ago

New Apple video ads sell App Store & iMessage security, recycling efforts

Apple on Monday unloaded a burst of short "message" ads on YouTube, continuing its ongoing focus on user privacy and security.

By Roger Fingas | 11 months ago

OpenID Foundation says 'Sign in with Apple' has critical gaps, urges changes

11 months ago

OpenID Foundation says 'Sign in with Apple' has critical gaps, urges changes

The OpenID Foundation this week issued an open letter to Apple's Software Engineering chief, Craig Federighi, arguing that the upcoming "Sign in with Apple" standard bears a lot of similarity to OpenID Connect — but not enough for privacy, security, and development purposes.

By Roger Fingas | 11 months ago

White House mulls end-to-end encryption ban to aid law enforcement

11 months ago

White House mulls end-to-end encryption ban to aid law enforcement

The Trump administration are looking into the possibility of banning encryption techniques that cannot be broken by law enforcement, a proposal that would weaken encryption as a whole for users and businesses, and could make messaging clients like Apple's iMessage stop using end-to-end encryption.

By Malcolm Owen | 11 months ago

NSA admits to second incident of unauthorized metadata collection

11 months ago

NSA admits to second incident of unauthorized metadata collection

The U.S. National Security Agency scooped up unauthorized call and text message data in October, representing the second such incident known to the public.

By Roger Fingas | 11 months ago

Facebook VP Nick Clegg attacks Apple over privacy criticism

11 months ago

Facebook VP Nick Clegg attacks Apple over privacy criticism

Facebook vice president of global affairs has attacked Apple in the ongoing feud between the two tech titans over user data privacy, accusing the iPhone maker of being elitist while defending the social networking site's advertising-based model as a way to make it available to everyone.

By Malcolm Owen | 11 months ago

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