Dr. Mac demonstrates how he enjoys having his Mac and iOS devices read almost anything to him without spending a penny.
No, Apple Doesn't Keep a Location List to Track You
Paige Leskin’s article about location tracking is a bit misleading. She mentions that Apple keeps a detailed location list of every place you’ve visited. Which is false, because Apple doesn’t know anything about your location. Your iPhone does though, but that data doesn’t get sent to Apple unless you specifically opt in to send analytics to Apple. This is more than semantics, because your data staying on your iPhone is the foundation of Apple’s privacy stance. If you go to Settings > General > Privacy > Location Services, you can tap on the blue text at the top that says “About Location Services & Privacy.” This section clearly states “This data is encrypted and stored only on your device and will not be shared without your consent.” And if you did consent to share it with Apple, you’re probably not worried.
Apple tracks and stores where you’ve been and how often (and when) you visit. But it gets even more detailed than that: Your iPhone compiles locations specific to a single address and tracks when you leave there and even how long it took to get there and by which mode of transportation.
Brie Larson Stars in CIA Drama for Apple
Apple has ordered a straight-to-series CIA drama based on an upcoming memoir by Amaryllis Fox. It will star Brie Larson.
President Trump Calls Tim Cook 'Tim Apple'
President Trump called Apple’s CEO “Tim Apple” during a meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board.
That Ominous Figure in the Corner of Your Digital Living Room is Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to be your “digital living room” where you can privately share your thoughts, messages, and photos of your kids that the company will use for advertising purposes. Which was a topic left out of his essay on his new “privacy-focused vision.”
I understand that many people don’t think Facebook can or would even want to build this kind of privacy-focused platform — because frankly we don’t currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services, and we’ve historically focused on tools for more open sharing. But we’ve repeatedly shown that we can evolve to build the services that people really want, including in private messaging and stories.
Guy Kawasaki: 'Customers can't tell you how to create a revolution'
Over at Forbes, Alejandro Cremades provides an updated thumbnail of Guy Kawasaki, the former Apple star evangelist. Included are three counter-intuitive principles Kawasaki learned from Steve Jobs, Guy’s list of the only three true visionaries in the history of American business, and info on Guy’s new book: Wise Guy. Want to get in touch with Kawasaki? That’s also included.
This Award-Winning Tool Helps You Read Up to 20% Faster With a Colorful, Cognitive Trick: $22.49
We have a deal on BeeLine Reader, a speed-reading tool that helps you read faster by color coding text. BeeLine Reader applies an eye-guiding color gradient to your text, with the color at the end of one line matching perfectly with the beginning of the next. It’s designed to help your eyes quickly follow each line and snap to the next again and again. Our deal is for a lifetime subscription for $29.99, but coupon code DOWNLOADIT brings your checkout price down to $22.49.
Dev-Fused iPhones are Important Security Tools
Special prototype iPhones called dev-fused iPhones help security researchers examine Apple’s code.
National Security Agency Releases Ghidra
The NSA has released its tool called Ghidra at the RSA Security Conference. It’s an open-source tool that helps security researchers examine malware code.
You can’t use Ghidra to hack devices; it’s instead a reverse engineering platform used to take “compiled,” deployed software and “decompile” it. In other words, it transforms the ones and zeros that computers understand back into a human-readable structure, logic, and set of commands that reveals what the software you churn through it does.
The 2019 Apple Supplier Responsibility Report
The 2019 Apple Supplier Responsibility Report has been released. The report is broken down into three categories.