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Book Review & Giveaway: 'Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level' is solid a...The first biography of Apple's Tim Cook is a comprehensive and highly detailed account of his career and how he shaped Apple after Steve Jobs's death…
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Editorial: Mozilla's anti-Apple privacy petition call is misguided and unnecessaryFirefox developer Mozilla wants you to sign a petition claiming that Apple is helping third-party advertisers track what ads, videos, and apps you us…
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Tim Cook wanted Apple to fight US DOJ in court over encryptionSpeaking at Time Magazine's first-ever Time 100 Summit on Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook addressed a variety of topics, most notably saying he wished th…
... 2016, Apple famously fought the FBI and DOJ over demands for ... that DOJ officials including present FBI Director Christopher Wray have long ... -
Massachusetts judge granted warrant to unlock suspects iPhone with Touch IDLaw enforcement can compel a suspect to unlock their iPhone using Touch ID under a warrant, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled in April, muddying th…
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Idaho judge denies warrant to compel suspect to unlock smartphone with biometricsAn Idaho court has denied a warrant asking for authorization for law enforcement to make a smartphone owner unlock their device with their fingerprin…
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Editorial: Apple Card invites you to join a premium, private clubTo enable Apple Card purchases at merchants that don't yet accept Apple Pay, the company designed its own physical credit card in partnership with Go…
... . In 2016 James Comey's FBI flat out lied about encryption ... down, Apple persisted until the FBI gave up its case. Apple ... -
Editorial: Huawei and the phony hate for Apple's iPhone in ChinaAccording to a wide variety of analysts following Apple, the Trump Administration's trade war with China and its Entity Listing of Huawei is maybe so…
... up encryption backdoors for the FBI. He then continued to tweet ... -
Cellebrite says it can pull data from any iOS device ever madeIsraeli mobile device forensics company Cellebrite proclaimed on Friday that it can break into any iOS device, including those running iOS 12.3. <…
... be the firm that the FBI turned to crack the iPhone ... killer Syed Rizwan Farook. The FBI and Department pursued Apple to ... -
Editorial: No Bill Gates, Windows was not iPhone's 'natural' nemesisMicrosoft's former chief executive Bill Gates mused this week that it would have been the "natural thing" for Microsoft to have been the "standard no…
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New Apple video ads sell App Store & iMessage security, recycling effortsApple on Monday unloaded a burst of short "message" ads on YouTube, continuing its ongoing focus on user privacy and security. <div align="center"…
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Apple's latest transparency report includes government demands for App Store removals, red...Apple on Tuesday published its transparency report for the six-month period ending in December 2018, revealing for the first time government requests…
... some cases lifted when the FBI deems them no longer necessary ... . In the U.S., the FBI filed between 3 and 499 ... -
US Attorney General Barr doubles down on encryption backdoors callThe US Attorney General William Barr has waded into the ongoing encryption debate, claiming the encryption of data is putting the security of America…
... and agencies, such as the FBI and the police, are in ... -
Capital One hack exposes data of 100M+ customer accountsA Seattle woman has been arrested and charged with hacking into Capital One and gaining access to over 100 million customer accounts at the U.S. bank…
... the info along to the FBI. A search of Thompson's ... -
Daily Apple Store thief sentenced, viral selfie yielded no tips on the Apple crime blotter...The FBI hacked an iPhone in the Long Island Iced Tea crypto investigation, a Chinese counterfeiter in a million-dollar fake iPhone ring has been sent…
The FBI hacked an iPhone in the ... had stolen from other stores. FBI hacked iPhone in Long Island ... in the scheme -- and the FBI, in 2018, was able to ... -
Editorial: Why does Apple have a monopoly on responsive corporate values?Apple pioneered the concept of making its products accessible to users with disabilities back in the 1980s. It has made environmentally sound manufac…
... U.S. government and the FBI over the issue. That occurred ... -
Delhi court demands iPhone location data from Apple, but it probably doesn't have itApple has been ordered to supply the location details of the iPhone owned by a defendant in a rape case in India, but it isn't clear if Apple has the…
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Apple's new privacy page hammers home long-time focusApple has updated its official privacy site with explanatory overviews of hot-button topics such as being tracked by your phone, and having messages …
... the iPhone 5c, and the FBI Celebgate is the reason ... San Bernardino attack. During the FBI's investigation of that ... as Apple versus the FBI. The Bureau painted this ... the day and the FBI backed down. Since then, ... the case against the FBI had gone to court, ... -
Tim Cook has eye on 'a lot of interesting small things,' not 'anything big'Apple CEO Tim Cook, on a press tour of the company's upcoming billion-dollar campus in Austin, Texas, campus on Wednesday, fielded the usual question…
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Over 1.2B profiles found in unsecured server shows severity of data collection by tech fir...The discovery of an unprotected data store containing 1.2 billion records of personal information gleaned from data brokerage services offers a glimp…
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Apple privacy exec lauds company initiatives, defends stance on encryptionJane Horvath, Apple's senior director of global privacy, took part in a privacy-centric panel at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday, where she lauded the co…
... ongoing investigation. On Monday, the FBI sent a letter to Apple ... creation of backdoors when the FBI requested assistance in accessing an ... -
Cellebrite expands to Mac forensic tools with $33M BlackBag purchaseCellebrite, a digital forensic company known for assisting law enforcement in unlocking iPhones, is expanding its reach to other platforms, with the …
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Apple braces for legal fight with DOJ over Pensacola shooter's iPhonesApple CEO Tim Cook is reportedly building a small team of specialists to defend the company's encryption policies in a potential legal showdown with …
... encryption technologies. Last week, the FBI requested Apple's assistance in ... it is cooperating with the FBI and has handed over Alshamrani ... role in this investigation," an FBI spokeswoman told The Times. "The ... iPhone 7 Plus -- but the FBI was able to repair the ... -
Scotland police don't seem to have any problem getting data off locked iPhonesStarting on January 20, 2020, Scotland police will begin using "cyber kiosks" to extract and examine the contents of smartphones -- including iPhones…
... Trump On January 13, the FBI and Attorney General William ... Station in Pensacola, Florida. The FBI has been granted permission to ... privy to that information. The FBI and other security agencies ... famously, this includes when the FBI hired Cellebrite to unlock ... -
Crime blotter: High-level crime allegations in Washington DC, plus robberies, attacks, and...The likes of Lev Parnas, Harvey Weinstein and George Nader all got into trouble with the iPhones this week, plus one man tried to cover his tracks by…
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New York City has a $10 million cybercrime lab to crack the iPhoneIn an interview published on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. has pulled back the curtain on what it's like trying to access data th…
... scrapped the plans after the FBI demanded that the data stay in a readable format. The FBI has obtained iCloud data in ... -
Apple spent $7.4M on lobbying efforts in 2019, well below outlays from Amazon and Facebook...FAANG companies -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google -- spent record amounts on respective bids to influence politicians over the cours…
... those benefits by cowing to FBI demands to "unlock," or break ... -
Mac Pro, Coronavirus, and Apple TV+ awards - January 2020 in reviewWhat a difference a year makes. Apple began 2019 as a technology company but it's started January 2020 as a television, news, gaming and financial fi…
... problems that agencies like the FBI faces, but as it had ... : Parker Ortolani via Twitter The FBI didn't exactly say "challenge ... in Pensacola, Florida, and the FBI wrote to Apple asking it ... -
Apple Watch outsells all Swiss firms combined, plus a new fight over health records on the...This week on the AppleInsider Podcast, the Apple Watch sales now easily exceed those of every single Swiss watch company just as Jony Ive predicted y…
... also improved keyboard access. The FBI still hasn't unlocked the ... by sales volume in 2019 FBI Pensacola investigation still hasn't ... -
Huawei hit hard by coronavirus in China, new criminal charges in U.S.There's lots of bad news piling up for Huawei, the firm often considered to be Android's best hope of challenging Apple's leadership in smartphone de…
... . Department of Justice and the FBI have filed a new 58 ...