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Apple Launches iOS 11.3 With Raft of Privacy Features (theguardian.com)
Apple is launching a major privacy push, with software updates across all its devices to introduce new data privacy information immediately, with an updated website offering new privacy management tools to follow in May. From a report: Thursday's updates (macOS 10.13.4, iOS11.3 and tvOS 11.3) are prompted by the enormous new European data protection regulation GDPR, and have been in the works since at least January. But they come at a good time for the company, whose head Tim Cook has been merrily capitalising on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, publicly rebuking Mark Zuckerberg over the social network's business model. For users of the company's devices, the biggest change will be the introduction of a unified data privacy iconography, which now shows up alongside detailed information about how Apple uses personal data for its various first-party services. "Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right," the company will tell every user the first time they turn on their devices after the update, "so every Apple product is designed to minimise the collection and use of your data, use on-device processing whenever possible, and provide transparency and control over your information."
"Apple takes your money, not your data"
(Then again vendor lockin with photo software.)
They have VERY few holes in them!
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
You pay a little more for their devices, but that's because the cost isn't subsidized by whoring your privacy out to the highest bidder.
By the time most people are aware of the tradeoff, it's too late.
its all academic. it can be as secure as you want it to be but if Apple will willingly turn over the keys to the kingdom to the Chinese, i cant trust them to not do the same for the US, EU or anyone else?
As much as I loathe Apple fanboy-ship, I have to admit that if there are a handful of companies that I trust relatively more about my privacy and data, it's Apple. They actually go out of their way to separate what lives on your phone versus is uploaded to cloud (and they don't want to be in the business of uploading certain data).
Makes me think that they at least have a team on it, versus like a goddamn Verizon-built phone, or HTC, Huawei, or even a Google Pixel or Samsung (and their wild-west-it's-all-good use of Android).
That's what Apple releases do, wasting my bandwidth (Wifi can be metred too in a non net neutral world).
I gotta give it to the EU parliament for GDPR, I mean, it may not be the cage shaking of epic proportion, but it's something. That shit was never going to happen in the United States, ever.
This still changes little to none --- ok, it makes us now aware of shit we always knew anyway, but decided to turn a consumer blind eye too because was saw something fucking 'shiny'. I hold myself accountable and gullible just as anyone else. It is not like eating that last Krispy Kreme doughnut in the break room when you know you didn't ever fucking need it? And doing it over and over again with each new social media platform you just had to be a part of, knowing full well that 'free' means a loosening the belt every time you sit back down at your desk until you gotta go buy new Dockers at Macy's?
I see this as little more than altered perception comfort-food icon eye candy for all of us to say, "See look, this isn't as intrusive as this one!". It's just another dangly, shiny piece to distract you. It's just implied compliance to exactly to what was said, nothing more, nothing less, to make you feel better. There's still zero disclosure and whatever was given up, there's already a new, unknown backdoor way of just doing it under our noses again.
Good to see Freedom Warrior Tim Cook did not waver one iota in defending your essential liberties against institutional tyranny, unlike that spineless traitor John Chen who EAGERLY threw the Blackberry server room keys to whatever jackbooted government goon that came calling.
Private is a right now, but later it can change. That's the problem with going with any cloud provider.
What would be helpful is there were privacy-enhanced versions of apps and o/s's that didn't have any data collection built in at all.
It's very concerning to sit down at a window 10 machine or google phone and know that you CANT TRUST IT.
Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right
If they believe it they should have no problem updating their legally binding privacy policy to state that fact.
Actions not words Mr Cook, actions, not words. ... err or at least legally binding words rather than marketing soundbites.
they may not commercialize and sell your data for money, but if you think they aren't letting NSA and/or CIA take whatever they want, you are just kidding yourself.
Safe from other users? Sure. Safe from the U.S. gov? No such thing when it comes to American companies in the tech sector.
too bad apple is a walled garden mess full of proprietary garbage that never really works the way you expect it work.
do you still need itunes just to copy a file from your phone to your computer?
too bad apple is a walled garden mess full of proprietary garbage that never really works the way you expect it work.
Keeping my information private is exactly how I expect it to work, and it works well.
Trolling is a art,
John Chen is ethnically Chinese, so this was bound to happen.
a raft of new bugs.
can read your files now.
Tim Cook leaked JL's photos FYI.
You better implement all of this for older versions of iOS and macOS too, otherwise you're going to be sued because some people are still using OS X 10.9.5 and iOS 9.
#DeleteFacebook
when Silicon Valley eats its own.
Tim Cook has been... publicly rebuking Mark Zuckerberg over the social network's business model.
Much as I hate the Zuck, it would be entertaining to see him to take Cook to task over Foxconn's shitty treatment of its suicidal employees. In SV, pretty much nobody's hands are clean. Glass houses, something something, stones.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
If they believe it they should have no problem updating their legally binding privacy policy to state that fact.
They did, since the thing you click on to agree to the privacy policy after an update (that states privacy is a fundamental human right), is the legally binding thing.
If you were referring to the website, well it doesn't have those exact words (yet), but it's obviously not the legally binding thing since it just sits there and I can ignore it.
You seem pretty confused about how contracts and legality work.
Actions not words Mr Cook
These are actions, taken through an update to iOS. They are LITERALLY ACTIONS *AND* WORDS.
You don't seem very clear on the concept of "Action" either, sad to say. But loose thinking is the hallmark of the Apple Hater after all, so it's not unexpected your post would get nothing right. Sigh.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Apple will willingly turn over the keys to the kingdom to the Chinese
Who says it's willing? It's very unwilling, but it's mandatory.
Apple has isolated China iCloud servers since China mandates full access. It's not like any citizen outside the U.S. will see any data held there.
i cant trust them to not do the same for the US, EU or anyone else?
I can because they (A) don't want to (B) don't have to (no laws in the U.S. and EU mandating access)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
too bad apple is a walled garden mess full of proprietary garbage that never really works the way you expect it work.
do you still need itunes just to copy a file from your phone to your computer?
If you are talking about iOS, it hasn't truly been a Walled Garden since iOS 8, FOUR years ago.
You can "sideload" any number of Open Source iOS Apps if you have a Mac and XCode.
You can "sideload" any number of Closed Source iOS Apps as ".ipa" Files using the FREE Cydia Impactor. Runs on all major Platforms. And Linux.
Both methods are officially supported by Apple.
Please DO try to keep up, Hater.
Are they still logging encryption keys in plain text?
Gotta admit, I'm having a lot of trouble getting over that one, that was a doozie.
bzzztt
Apple provides developers with an ad impression interface on their dev console (there was a bug displaying another developer's ad info earlier this year).
Answer me this: What ads are being reporting on? How are these ads being targetted?
Sure just give apple even more money for a small glimpse outside the wall that might be take away at any moment. Your a FOOL
You pay Apple extra for style, not for privacy. You can buy a cheap pc and protect your privacy with linux. Or a cheap android phone and replace the fb app with adblockers. Privacy don't cost much, there is no premium needed.
Talk to me like you would, a 10-year-old child:
How would IOS upgraded, patched, sewn, and braided, give me the current temperature, without me providing a hole-in-the-dike of privacy, my current whereabouts?
I think I would just switch off and try and find a video news feed on display somewhere e.g. an electronics flat screen TV display store, or airport terminal ("ding" we have a fix on your twenty)
By the time most people are aware of the tradeoff, it's too late..
What kind of fucking nerd would need to copy a file from phone to computer?
Is that the best selling point of android now? If so no wonder smart people are leaving googles world of shit.
bzzztt
Apple provides developers with an ad impression interface on their dev console (there was a bug displaying another developer's ad info earlier this year).
Answer me this: What ads are being reporting on? How are these ads being targetted?
Do you actually want to know, because Apple is very forthcoming about it.
https://developer.apple.com/do...
When you follow that link you will see that Apple has deprecated iAd, and news stories will tell you that Apple doesn't sell this anymore. Even when they did, the privacy policy was a lot better than Google's.
As a developer you could never get any user-identifiable information except an Ad identifier that was not unique to the device, only to the installation of that app on that device.
- Vincit qui patitur.
If I had one your phones apple, how would protect ** MY ** phone from you? Why should I even trust you to make my security decisions and app choices for me? If you believe in the ideal that you speak of, then you would provide tools so that the OWNER of the device is the one in complete control. Why do your users have to use an encryption system that you are in control of and could potentially be forced to hand over the security keys to in the first place? Why can they not use any app THEY choose and any encryption system THEY choose?
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
Except Google tracking everything you do on Android.
watchOS 4.3 is also updated today, for those with Apple Watches
You misspelt 'ethically'
You can "sideload" any number of Open Source iOS Apps if you have a Mac and XCode.
You forgot to mention that sideloaded app only works for 7 days.
Wasn't sure if that is a good thing or not.
You can buy an Android phone and never, ever register a google account to it. You can choose to instead get apps from the Amazon app store, or just only install sideloaded apk installers.
How much can you do with that iGadget if you never, ever log onto your Apple account with it?
What kind of fucking nerd would need to copy a file from phone to computer?
The kind of nerd that also reads AC rants, I guess. Just yesterday I decided to download my pics n vids off of my new iPhone, which I had to get for work recently. I started up iTunes because, since it's a content mgmt system, it would manage *all* the media content on my fon. Nope. Not there. Ok fine, open up File Explorer to see what drive letter got assigned to the flash on my fon. Nope. Not there.
Ok fine, I'll have to google it tonight. I don't expect that it'll be a big deal (unless they expect me to store my files in their cloud instead of my disk), and I'm sure there's a way that, er, "just works"(tm).
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Yeah, that's why Apple holds decryption keys for everything on iCloud and gives the user no way to control it with E2E.
The Secure Enclave stuff seems pretty good but they also run a giant honeypot and encourage its use.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
What kind of fucking nerd would need to copy a file from phone to computer?
Is that the best selling point of android now? If so no wonder smart people are leaving googles world of shit.
The other way around - computer to phone - is common, and to do that for iOS, one has to have iTunes on the computer, be it PC or Mac. For Android, if the SD card is a secondary storage i.e. FAT32 formatted, the files can simply be copied, but for iOS, even if you have bought the songs or videos, you can't transfer it to, say, an iPod w/o having iTunes.
I do agree, however, that that's not a good reason to buy Android. I have an iPod where I did use iTunes to transfer music to the device (it can't be done just by syncing that device to my iCloud account the way it can on either iPhone or iPad). That thing lives in my car, whose navigation system does have an iPod mode (like AM, FM, XM) but can only read an Android or Windows Phone via Bluetooth
Apple's idea here is that you would upload it to iCloud, and download it from there on to your computer. Only problem - if you have only the free iCloud quota of 5GB but more than 5GB of pics & videos, then you might want to upload it first to either Google Drive or OneDrive, and then download it to the computer.
Forget about downloading any apps then, or even using any of the preloaded apps that have since gotten upgrades. I recently did a reset of my HTC phone, decided to use it not w/ my gmail account but instead, a Hotmail account, and I was unable to use Google Play to download some apps that I needed. Incidentally, on another device, I had no issues using an AOL account to register the device, w/o including any Google account.
As far as the Apple gadget goes, if you have, in iTunes, a backup of a previous device, you can copy that into your iGadget w/o logging into your Apple account
I guess you don't read their terms of service or privacy policy then. Only their non-legally binding marketing speak keeps your data private. You only need to look at history to see how often words are changed. Keeping your own info private is the only way and that gets harder and harder as people mistakenly believe they can trust their favorite companies.
Try opening Pictures, or whatever the f Microsoft calls their image viewer these days. Itâ(TM)ll offer to grab your photos from your phone. No need to open your music player to map a drive letter to your phone or whatever madness you were trying.
Android phone: a case for your SD card that lets you read Facebook.
Thx, lol the madness, yes...I tried the apple way, I tried the windows way. If the photoapp way will work, good. I wonder if I'll have to get vidapp way to get my videos, and a fileapp way to get my files?
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
Well, chit. I was afraid of that. Thanks.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
It's good that Safari allows DuckDuckGo, but DDG results are sometimes sub-par. I wish Apple added Startpage to the default search options. Secure and private Google searches are the best of both worlds.
Buying a "cheap Android" and loading it up with some rickety OS is a much bigger security problem than trusting Apple.
If you're going to do Android, do it right and use CopperheadOS which is secure and well-supported.
What? It is as simple as plugging it in, hit âoetrust this computerâ on your device, and then open Windows Explorer. Apple iPhone will show up as a removable drive. I do this all the time for field photos for work (phone geotags the photos GPS lat long).
Note that with this method you can only copy and delete the photos and videos from the iPhone, but you cannot upload any to it.
too bad apple is a walled garden mess full of proprietary garbage that never really works the way you expect it work.
It may be a walled garden, but it's certainly not a mess, and it always works the way *I* expect it to.
Contrast with Android, where I downloaded a turn-by-turn navigation app. Driving for three minutes, the device went to sleep. OK, where are the app's settings to override sleep, and keep the screen on while the app is active? Nowhere. OK, where are the settings in Android to allow an app to have exceptions to the sleep policy? Nowhere. I have to get another app, with a list of apps that it tells Android are exempt from the sleep timeout policy. You may call that freedom from a walled garden, but I call it a shitty human interface.
Which was my point! It's no big deal copying from the iPhone to the computer, but to move stuff from computer to iPhone, you need iTunes!
Really!! More truths the LIAR THEFAKETIMCOOK leaves out of his INSANE apple defending.
Id rather be a truthful apple HATER than a DECEPTIVE LYING sack of shit apple CULTIST spread untruths every time he TALKS.
No, I don't need iTunes anymore. I can move files to or from my iPhone with iCloud or any multitude of third-party apps.
I used to worry about the "walled garden" aspect but kind of like a homeowners association I like paying a little extra for Apple to keep the garden tended and free from weeds. I have little time to spend pruning and weeding myself when I could simply be enjoying the garden.