Over the years, Apple has spent a lot of time and energy driving home the message that Apple cares about your privacy. The company has posted billboard ads about privacy and created a section of its website detailing its privacy practices, and CEO Tim Cook called on Congress to change privacy laws. Now, Apple is adding new privacy features to …
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Tired of leaking data across the web? The Firefox browser and its privacy tools can help protect you and your data as you visit websites. Among the threats Mozilla’s Firefox web browser for Windows and MacOS can protect you from are trackers that gather your browsing history, cryptominers that secretly use your device’s resources to mine cryptocurrency and fingerprinters that …
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Staying private online can sometimes feel like a cat-and-mouse game. As you download the latest ad blocker to prevent trackers from knowing your online activities, advertisers are already looking for ways to work around it. And unless the internet’s entire business model changes, you’re doomed to this cycle of constantly trying to protect your privacy online. But a group of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Without the software that powers them, iPhones and Android phones would be high-priced pieces of glass, metal and plastic. So let’s see how the new mobile OSes from Apple and Google compare, now that iOS 13.1 is already here and Android 10 — previously …
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Spotify knows a lot about its users — their musical tastes, their most listened-to artists and their summer anthems. Spotify will also want to know where you live or to obtain your location data. It’s part of an effort to detect fraud and abuse of its Premium Family program. Premium Family is a $15-a-month plan for up to six people. …
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The Golden State is one step closer to banning police departments from using facial recognition in body cameras. The California State Senate voted Wednesday to approve a bill that would prevent police from using the two technologies together for three years. The bill arises from concerns that facial recognition isn’t reliable enough to use without flagging high rates of innocent …
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Facebook recently removed a setting that controls how the company uses facial recognition on photos posted to the social network. It used to be that you’d just turn on a setting to identify and tag yourself and your friends. Now, Facebook will automatically scan your photos to suggest people you can tag based on who’s in your photo. It’ll also send alerts if …
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Mozilla is again testing a VPN service for its Firefox browser that can help protect your privacy while you’re surfing around on public Wi-Fi. The move could also potentially give Mozilla a little financial independence. The Firefox Private Network is available as a beta for desktop users in the US starting Tuesday. It’s a VPN, or virtual private network, that …
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Facebook appears to be trying to get ahead of a new iPhone privacy feature that gives you far more control over how often apps can access your location. The social network on Monday detailed the ways it uses location data and outlined how users can control location settings in Apple’s upcoming iOS 13 for the iPhone 11, 11 Pro and 11 Max Pro, …
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Security vulnerabilities in 30 GPS tracker models targeted at kids, seniors and pets can expose data including people’s real-time GPS coordinates, according to a blog post Thursday from security firm Avast. Design flaws also allow hackers to potentially access device microphones or spoof a location, Avast found, highlighting the security and privacy struggles consumers still face when it comes to …
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