Yesterday, Apple announced its new name for artificial intelligence tools on its platform: Apple Intelligence. If you watched the keynote carefully, it was almost humorous how they danced around the term “artificial intelligence” throughout. At the beginning, Tim made reference to “intelligence” without the…
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Addressing Unwanted Tracking
I’ve been playing with Bluetooth trackers since long before the AirTag showed up. There’s always been two schools of thought around these things: 1. Let Me Track Anything A lot of the initial trackers had no limitations attached to them. If someone steals your…
Continue reading →Apple and Privacy
Today 9to5 Mac ran an article about how Apple’s privacy focus comes with a cost of slower app development and fewer features. That makes sense to me. It is harder to develop with privacy limitations and smaller data sets. This is an old debate.…
Continue reading →The Age of Mass Surveillance
There is a story making the rounds today about a secret CIA program for which very few details exist except for the disclosure that it involves a mass surveillance program on American soil that included at least some data collection of U.S. Citizens. It…
Continue reading →Bokeh – a Private Social Network Attempt
We discuss user data and privacy a lot around here. Here is a Kickstarter project that will actually respect user privacy. Instead of collecting and mining your user data to sell you creepily specific targeted ads, Tim Smith is building Bokeh to be a…
Continue reading →Privacy Versus Cloud Services, Continued
For years now, folks interested in technology have considered the tradeoffs between cloud services and privacy. Tim Cook’s recent comments at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder conference has me thinking about it again. Tim was clear on Apple’s position: “But we don’t want to use…
Continue reading →Three Things You Can Do Today to Increase Your Facebook Privacy
For years I was one of those curmudgeons that refused to use Facebook in any capacity. I’ve been turned around on that a little bit because of the success of the Mac Power Users and Free Agents Facebook groups at creating a safe, fun…
Continue reading →The Slippery Slope of Internet Privacy
The U.S. Senate has now voted to remove prior regulations prohibiting Internet Service Providers (ISPs)–the folks you pay for your home Internet pipe–from selling your browsing and Internet data to others for fun and profit. This is pretty terrible news if you care at…
Continue reading →Jonathan Zdziarski at Apple
Jonathan Zdziarski is a well respected security and privacy expert. Now he works for Apple. Jonathan’s explanation of why he took the gig pushes all my buttons. “This decision marks the conclusion of what I feel has been a matter of conscience for me…
Continue reading →Yahoo.Gov
It is becoming increasingly clear that last year, the government ordered Yahoo to search its entire user email database and Yahoo’s response was, “no problem”. According to the New York Times, Yahoo was forbidden from disclosing the order and the collection is no longer…
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