Your call logs get sent to Apple’s servers whenever iCloud is on — something Apple does not disclose.
Perspective | It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to?
We ran a privacy experiment to see how many hidden trackers are running from the apps on our iPhone. The tally is astounding.
Your Phone Notifications Reveal More Than You Realize. Here’s How to Lock Them Down
A recent case shows law enforcement can see incoming Signal messages by searching an iPhone, even after the Signal app has been deleted. Here’s what to know, and how to protect yourself.
How does Apple (privately) find your offline devices?
At Monday’s WWDC conference, Apple announced a cool new feature called “Find My”. Unlike Apple’s “Find my iPhone”, which uses cellular communication and the lost…
Let’s talk about iMessage (again)
Yesterday’s New York Times carried a story entitled “Apple and other tech companies tangle with U.S. over data access”. It’s a vague headline that manages to obscure the rea…
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? | Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald: A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case
Nearly all AT&T subscribers’ call records stolen in Snowflake cloud hack
Six months of call and text records taken from AT&T workspace on cloud platform.
These Headphones Spy on Users, Lawsuit Says | Fortune
They allegedly record your listening history.
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask. In a presentation at \[…\]
Introducing Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
ChatGPT's new Computer History tracks your Mac activity to create a timeline - but should you let it?
Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?
Spying on Congress and Israel: NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated
This pattern has been seen many times as part of the Snowden revelations, but also well before that.
Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show
Snowden documents show agency is collecting billions of records on whereabouts of mobile devices
Apple admits giving governments access to thousands of iPhones and other devices
Apple's Transparency Report reveals a 9 per cent rise in the number of demands for customer data in 2018
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret (Published 2018)
Dozens of companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds. They say it’s anonymous, but the data shows how personal it is.
Tim Cook: Privacy Is Worth Protecting | InformationWeek
Apple CEO Tim Cook leans on the Founding Fathers to suggest the company did the right thing when asked by the FBI to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. It's an issue that affects IT professionals who need to protect company data, as well as consumers and their personal information.
