When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?
privacy
Seven years ago, I compared rising surveillance to the vile practices of the Stasi. Now it is happening: email, webcam, and more private communications are being scanned in bulk.
What do you make of an app which “takes control of your Mac” without asking you, and then refuses to let you disable that?
Social media and ad trackers do not operate to acceptable standards of privacy. And Apple just sprung us a minor update to OS X, not just a security update.
A chilling tale with a happy ending – for once – which shows how our governments don’t want to improve our computer security.
How not to lose data, and how to protect private and sensitive data, when your Mac goes off for repair.
The UK’s National Crime Agency has revealed how it plans to force Apple to open up encryption to it. Will it work?
European data protection law is at last changing, but not just yet, and we’re not sure how.
Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo together have a lot of clout. More than the UK government?
One iPhone to unlock or hundreds? And what about all those expensive UFEDs, which are designed to do just that?
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