With Tim Cook’s speech at the Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection conference, on Privacy Day 2021.
Category: Privacy
Apple’s privacy labels on some messaging apps
Privacy labels of some popular messaging apps on App Store from this article, originals available here: Signal, Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp,Facebook Messenger.
On DropBox & cloud sync
I do not use DropBox. Dropbox OSX “dirty little security hack”, here, and here. Alternatives: ownCloud, Nextcloud, if you run your own server.
On Zoom
7/10/19: I do not use Zoom. Zoom installing a hidden web server that would could automatically launch video calls and would not get uninstalled with app, in fact it seems it would stay active and automatically install the app upon clicking on links to zoom calls. This is forcibly fixed by an Apple silent update (normally… Continue reading On Zoom
On Gmail
I do not use Gmail for work-related e-mails, or other e-mais I prefer to not be read by Google or the companies it sells ad to. I would love to hear updates on these policies/what is actually the latest about Gmail privacy.
JHU Hub news
You may read the JHU newsletter Hub following this link without being individually tracked by Hopkins, as you are when you click links in the daily e-mails from JHU, where links are all individualized per user (at least, as per Feb. 2017, and at least Jan 2020…). The webserver serving this page does not belong… Continue reading JHU Hub news