A Berlin Regional Court has today ruled that Apple’s policy on sharing customer data violates privacy laws. The court has ruled that Apple cannot request or claim “global consent” for use of a customers data, without informing customers of how and where the data will be used. As a result, Apple will no longer be able to use German users’ data to…
The latest EFF privacy report has been released and it’s not great news for our favorite fruit company. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has create a round up chart of 18 major web and tech companies which all have access to your personal data, and judge them on how much they fight for their users’ privacy. Ratings were awarded based on a 6-star…
The judge in charge of the iOS privacy lawsuit has demanded that Apple show what it is doing to produce documents. The company needs to specify exactly what actions it has taken in order to ensure that documents required by March 18th are being located and prepared. Apple needs to prove that it has taken action by today, and it’s only because the judge…
If you remember, there was a lot of hubbub surrounding Path about a year ago. It had been collecting user information without their permission, and this was a serious problem. Apple went as far as making it where, now in iOS 6, applications give you a prompt asking if each can access different parts of the device. The FTC announced today that Path has…
Ponemon Institute LLC has just posted its 2012 “Most Trusted Companies for Privacy” list, an independent research study on, as the name suggests, the trust in companies for the privacy practices. For the last 3 years, Apple has made an appearance on this list, but, as you can see above, it failed to make the list this year; just barely though, coming in…
A potentially serious threat to privacy has been discovered in the Safari app of Apple’s iOS 6 software. The bug affects all iOS 6 users, regardless of which build of the operating system you use. Essentially, what the software error does is enable Javascript in Safari without consent of the user, a move described as a “serious privacy and security…
Facebook and their privacy policies have become fairly famous over the past year, with the concerns over user privacy being in headlines for a good amount of time. Well, to show that they are watching out for their ever increasing user base, a statement from California Attorney General Kamala Harris confirms that they are the seventh company to sign the…
Privacy is a big thing nowadays. A lot of companies are ramping up their security (Facebook?) and it looks like Apple isn’t going to stay out of it. Reports are coming out that they are planning to detail a new tracking tool for mobile developers that would protect privacy of iOS users better than current tools. The Wall Street Journal first revealed…
One of the lesser known features of Apple’s latest iteration of their OS, iOS5, is private browsing in Safari. It is a feature that a lot of third party browsers have offered for a while but was never offered natively. Now, you can use it in Safari and access it right in the settings. Also, Apple of course added their own little flare. To turn…
The whole locationgate saga is pretty much over. Once the public got wind that your location data could be accessed through your computer using a simple third-party app, users got paranoid. In my opinion, it was never anything to worry about, but as usual, with any slight problem relating to Apple products, it got blown way out of proportion. In a…
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