privacy

Simple question; just as the title says. For those who want some backstory: I have purchased a series of matter enabled homekit accessories, and to my surprise they don't work without a homekit hub. I have an M1 Ultra Mac Studio and an iPhone 13, but for reasons I absolutely fail to understand...

I found this app in my photos privacy & security app & ive googled & googled & I have no idea where it's from or what app its supposed to be called can anyone please tell me & how do I remove it? I added 2 photos for reference.

iPhone 14 Pro 17.0.2 I have a shortcut called Send Me an Email that I found somewhere. Whenever you were on any web page this shortcut would send you an email of the URL. It worked fine for years. Now it fails in Safari with the following error: The Privacy Tab for this shortcut seems to...

"iOS 17 update secretly changed your privacy settings; here's how to set them back" https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/ios-17-update-secretly-changed-your-privacy-settings-heres-how-to-set-them-back/ "Many iPhone users who upgraded their iPhones to the recently-released iOS 17 will...

Greetings earthlings, Alright, so over the past several years I’ve grown from indifferent to skeptical to wary to downright disdainful of google and any and all google products. When they bought out YouTube that one hurt. My favorite website, now monitored and powered by the great nosey spy...

So this is the press release from Apple and they also mentioned in the keynote about this But has this privacy option not existed since ios16 and there it’s called “selected photos”? If yes, then what exactly is new with this feature?

I just wanted to post it as I found it very interesting + everything makes more sense now.

INSANE. This is exactly why I do not use any Meta products. https://apnews.com/article/irs-taxpayer-tax-preparation-meta-congress-9315cfca7a0942ab89f765d183fbf822 "[The] report said highly personal and financial information about sources of taxpayers’ income, tax deductions and exemptions was...

I am able to disable chat history within the ChatGPT web app, but see no such setting in the iOS app. Is it enabled by default? Does the web setting affect to the iOS app?

Hey everyone, I recently downloaded an application that requires a bluetooth connection to a device, however, it appears as though the app doesn't have access to bluetooth. I have another app from the same developer that requires bluetooth, and it can successfully connect. In this way, I have...

YouTuber Louis Rossmann says MacOS is scanning for dangerous memes and illegal material without consent. So it begins again...

What was the last version of Mac's Messages, that you could print out PDF without black boxes on top of pictures? Or in which OS it shipped. I think I'm gonna make a virtualbox installation for that... Unless there's an app that autamatically does it. For starters I'd like to export 500...

Apple’s increased end-to-end encryption in iOS 16.2 is a great thing, and long overdue. It’s a real shame they are not going all the way and still leaving Contacts, Calendars, and Mail out of the E2E encryption. The “interoperability” reasoning they give for this is completely bogus...

A landmark court battle recently found that State & Federal government law enforcement agencies are allowed to compel (read that as “force”) citizens to unlock their phone if TouchID or FaceID is enabled, but they are not allowed to do so if the user unlocks the phone with a passcode that must...

Hello, this is a rather serious question about the way Apple handles payments on their App Store, as well as subscriptions. Because this post is about privacy, I will politely ask anyone who’s tempted to say that there’s not such thing as 100% privacy, to refrain from replying because that’s...

Hi. This is a question about privacy issues on MacOS app created by Apple. According to Apple's data collection policy, which is open to the public, Apple is collecting various personal information (including "Data linked to the user") when you use their original app like Pages, Numbers and...

Hello There! Wondering if any app developers on this forum can shed some light here. I have been trying to find this information for a while and couldn’t find it anywhere. Does anyone know what all system permissions do apps have by default? Even if I deny every permission the app asks, surely...

I know that apple has access to decrypt and read my files in iCloud, but what if i didn't sync them to iCloud? I didnt sync Notes, Calendar, Reminders to iCloud and am afraid that Apple is secretly uploading my files to itself

It’s a business strategy only. I’m an Apple fan boy (>25 years) like most of you guys. I love my iPhone, iPad and Macs & buy every year new ones. But one thing really bothers me. Their constant emphasis on how important privacy is to them even they are not serious about it. A big claim. I...

Can browsers or websites uniquely identify a Macbook pro like identifying an iPhone using UUID or AdID? or by MAC address? Or do they identify only using IP address or the Browser properties and cookies?