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A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 5 Location

Unique because Location Services isn’t managed by TCC, but by its own locationd service, and is invariably shared in iCloud.

March 3, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 4 tccutil

Despite the lack of documentation from Apple, here’s a full rundown on the only tool provided to control privacy settings.

January 28, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Things don’t always ‘just work’

Where are the tools for diagnosing and fixing features that don’t always ‘just work’? Turning to look at iCloud.

January 19, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 3 New protected locations

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How does Catalina protect privacy of locations such as ~/Documents and removable volumes? What are your controls?

January 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 2 Controlling privacy settings

Inside the Privacy tab in the Security & Privacy pane, and some pitfalls which could leave your private data exposed.

January 15, 2020 Macs, Technology

A Guide to Catalina’s Privacy Protection: 1 Principles and structure

Confused by Catalina’s privacy protection? Here are the principles behind it, and the categories and structure of protected services and locations.

January 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Mojave’s privacy consent works behind your back

Uninstall an app and it vanishes from the Privacy tab. But it hasn’t really gone – those consents will be reactivated if the app is replaced. Without you being informed.

July 22, 2019 Macs, Technology
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