Apple’s Tim Cook struck a $275 billion deal with China to ease a crackdown on its business there, per The Information…Apple agreed to help firms build “the most advanced manufacturing technologies” and invest “many billions of dollars” more in China…At China’s direction, the company misrepresented the size of disputed islands on Apple Maps under threat of losing Apple Watch approval…
Forget Facial Recognition: DHS’s New Database, HART, Also Uses Scars, Tattoos, and Your VOICE to ID You. And Amazon Is Storing All the Data. …
These days, you can’t really go anywhere without encountering cameras. Going into a store? Chances are there are security cameras. Getting money at an ATM? More cameras. Driving through the streets of a city? More cameras still. Your neighbors may have those doorbells from Amazon that are surveilling the entire neighborhood. And many of these […]
iPhones Secretly Send Call History to Apple, Security Firm Says…
Russian digital forensics firm Elcomsoft has found that Apple’s mobile devices automatically send a user’s call history to the company’s servers if iCloud is enabled — but the data gets uploaded in many instances without user choice or notification…