“Apple Watch has been credited with saving yet another life after alerting emergency services to what could have been a fatal fall,” reports Apple Insider:
On July 12, 25-year-old Brandon Schneider of Long Island visited the emergency room after suffe…
This week, Apple announced and then explained (pdf) the measures they’re taking to protect children (so: trigger warning) from grooming and to stop abusers from storing images of child sexual abuse in iCloud Photo Storage. Daring Fireball’s Jon Gruber …
Apple plans to scan iPhones. Apple will scan photo libraries stored on iPhones in the US for known images of child sexual abuse, the company says, drawing praise from child protection groups but crossing a line that privacy campaigners warn could have …
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. […]
On the surface Apple’s new features sound both sensible and commendable – but they also open a Pandora’s box of privacy and surveillance issuesPrivacy. That’s (no longer) iPhone. Continue reading…
It’s not a surprise to iOS users, but it’s still a disappointment.
Apple offers technical details, claims 1-in-1 trillion chance of false positives.
Apple removed the story promoting the apps after developers pointed it out.
Apple later this year will roll out new tools that will warn children and parents if the child sends or receives sexually explicit photos through the Messages app. The feature is part of a handful of new technologies Apple is introducing that aim to limit the spread of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) across Apple’s […]
Later this year, Apple will roll out a technology that will allow the company to detect and report known child sexual abuse material to law enforcement in a way it says will preserve user privacy. Apple told TechCrunch that the detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is one of several new features aimed at […]
