Sierra, new MacBooks and MacBook Pros, APFS, Affinity Photo, malware, surveillance – 2016 was perhaps not as bad as it seemed.
privacy
Massive breaches of personal data happen all too often. What should you do when they affect a website or service which you use?
Do you use Lynda.com or LinkedIn? Have your personal data been breached? You might like to check, and reconsider your use of their services.
How hard-won freedoms are being taken away by lies, stealth, and guile. A warning to other democracies.
Surely this Act was about terrorism and serious crime, wasn’t it? Why should I need to do anything different now it is law?
Do you have the app Shazam installed on any of your Macs? Patrick Wardle has just discovered that […]
When you keep documents in iCloud, are they backed up in Time Machine, searched in Spotlight, and kept securely?
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.
