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Facebook says privacy changes that Apple has made to its newest operating system will cripple the social-media giant’s ability to serve targeted ads to iPhone users while they use outside apps.
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Apple will delete your data if you don’t use an app for seven days. This effectively kills offline web apps.
Two years ago, Apple launched an aggressive battle against ads that track users across the web. Today executives in the online publishing and advertising industries say that effort has been stunningly effective—posing a problem for advertisers looking to reach affluent consumers.Since Apple ...
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Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown
Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it
We should expect Apple to lead the industry on this front, but in fact, they’re far behind.
The privacy crisis Apple and Google need to fix—now
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions | Technology | The Guardian
Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones
An idle Android smartphone sends user data back to Google servers nearly ten times more frequently as an Apple device sends data back to Apple servers.
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as important a feature as shiny industrial design or a nice camera.
The next versions of the iOS and the Mac operating systems will block the social network's trackers.