Tag: Apple

Google doesn’t want your permission to track you on iOS

Google will be updating its in house iOS apps to avoid scaring users with a tracking permission prompt. Apple’s iOS14 privacy upgrades – specifically Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) initiative will force apps to get express permission to be tracked for advertising purposes from app users via a tracking permission prompt. Instead of showing this … Continue reading “Google doesn’t want your permission to track you on iOS”

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  • Jan 19, 2021 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News, VPN,

A preliminary look at privacy labels in iOS VPN apps

Apple’s new privacy labels inform users about what information the app (VPN or otherwise) is sending back to the app’s developers – and for what purpose. There has been a lot of news and voting with feet over the last few weeks as a direct result of these privacy labels, particularly with encrypted messaging apps … Continue reading “A preliminary look at privacy labels in iOS VPN apps”

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  • Jan 14, 2021 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

Apple’s new privacy labels show how data hungry Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are

The rollout of privacy labels in all apps available in the iOS app store has revealed the massive amount of information that Facebook collects through Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. This revelation has seemingly burst the bubble around WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and started an exodus to end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that have a better track … Continue reading “Apple’s new privacy labels show how data hungry Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 18th, 2020 WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger has taken a public stance against Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels. WhatsApp provided the requested privacy information to Apple by the required deadline, but the messaging company also took to the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 18, 2020”

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  • Dec 10, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • General Privacy News,

WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive

Facebook’s WhatsApp is publicly protesting Apple’s privacy nutrition labels, calling the privacy labels “anti-competitive.” WhatsApp wishes its iOS users to know that the messaging app isn’t as privacy violating as it may seem based on the labels. WhatsApp has turned in the privacy nutrition labels to Apple – but also published a blogpost to lay … Continue reading “WhatsApp calls Apple’s new privacy nutrition labels for iOS 14 anti-competitive”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 27, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of November 27th, 2020 Official Trump 2020 App collected phone numbers from contact lists without consent and could sell that data New details about the official app used by the Trump 2020 campaign have been revealed and things aren’t looking good. Former employees admitted that the app ignored user … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 27, 2020”

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  • Nov 20, 2020 |
  • Caleb Chen |
  • Cybersecurity, Encryption, General Privacy News, Surveillance, VPN,

MacOS Big Sur(veillance) bypasses Firewall/VPN to tell Apple what programs you run on your computer

Some default Apple apps on MacOS Big Sur bypass any VPN or firewall rules set by the user to send information like what programs you run back to Apple. Namely, the Apple App store and 50 other Apple apps are allowed to bypass user based internet routing rules which means Apple could know your real … Continue reading “MacOS Big Sur(veillance) bypasses Firewall/VPN to tell Apple what programs you run on your computer”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 13, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of November 13th, 2020 EU continues to push for lawful access (aka backdoors) to end-to-end encrypted data A draft resolution by the Council of the European Union has highlighted that the EU is moving towards mandating encryption backdoors in platforms like Signal and WhatsApp – but God forbid they … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: November 13, 2020”

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