«The differential privacy technology used by Apple is rooted in the idea that statistical noise that is slightly biased can mask a user’s individual data before it is shared with Apple. If many people are submitting the same data, the noise that has been added can average out over large numbers of data points, and Apple can see meaningful information emerge».
«L’impact inouï de cet objet sur l’esprit et les usages des consommateurs, sur l’environnement, la vie privée ou la santé en fait un véritable symbole de notre époque. Il est également un des symboles de ses dérives : extraction polluante de métaux, exploitation des travailleurs, course à la consommation, évasion fiscale, obsolescence programmée…»
«To put it mildly, this is a huge, huge problem,” Wray said. “It impacts investigations across the board — narcotics, human trafficking, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, gangs, organized crime, child exploitation. […] I get it, there’s a balance that needs to be struck between encryption and the importance of giving us the tools we need to keep the public safe» – Christopher Wray (FBI Director).
Source : FBI couldn’t access nearly 7K devices because of encryption
«In an attempt to keep you connected to Apple devices and services, iOS 11 compromises users’ security. Such a loophole in connectivity can potentially leave users open to new attacks. Closing this loophole would not be a hard fix for Apple to make».
« It was used for an old version of the Apple Watch app, specifically to run the heavy lifting of rendering maps on your phone & then send the rendering to the Watch app. This dependency was removed with previous improvements to Apple’s OS & our app. Therefore, we’re removing this API from our iOS codebase ».
Source : Researchers: Uber’s iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen
«Clarification appended 9/15/17, 2:30 pm EDT: This piece has been edited to clarify Apple’s plan to store FaceID information locally and how a surveillance order might work».
Source : Apple’s FaceID Could Be a Powerful Tool for Mass Spying | WIRED
«We’re in a time where the greatest advances in camera technology are happening as much in the software as in the hardware» – Phil Schiller.
Source : How Apple Built An iPhone Camera That Makes Everyone A Professional Photographer
« Apps like Uber and Waze have been criticized for forcing users to grant them full access to a phone’s location status even when the app is not being used in order to operate. As we wrote last year, that raises the potential for them to quietly collect background information on users, even though Uber, for one, has played that suggestion down. Those days will soon be over for many users thanks to a new setting in iOS 11 that introduces the “While Using The App” location setting for all apps ».
Source : iOS 11 stops apps like Uber and Waze from accessing user location data at all times | TechCrunch
“Apple was supposed to have Michael Jackson, believe it or not, but he couldn’t make it because his hair was healing or something,” Dvorak wrote. “So for some unknown reason, they got Herbie Hancock’s Rockit Band for the star attraction.”
Source : ‘Apple II Forever’: Found photos offer early look at icons – San Francisco Chronicle
Learning and rest have to stay very close to each other, because this is the best way to ensure that the concepts are absorbed and understood very well.
Source : Silicon Valley comes to Naples: Apple prepares to open Italian academy | World news | The Guardian
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