Our phones are loaded with personal information, and they also know where we are and what were doing.

Its a little scary, but its also Apple at its best.

“I hope this might help anyone dealing with intimate partner surveillance or stalking by someone you trusted.”

“Privacy settings” on laptop screen.

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If you are included in a family administered by someone else, you’re free to easily leave.

The document is a great read, and digs deep while still being interesting and easy to follow.

It might surprise you how common this is.

The Apple anti-tracking message people will see on their iPhone.

Apple and Privacy

Apple talks up its commitment to privacy whenever it can.

And Apple really does back up this talk.

Here are a couple of neat privacy features you may not have known about.

It is, says The New York Times, asurveillance machine.

Heres the dialog box that pops up whenever an app wants to track you:

Thats it.

And yet Facebook has gone utterly nuts.

it’s possible for you to readthe entire text at Mac Rumors.

Its a good one.

The Electronic Frontier Foundationcalled it laughable.

This fight is just getting started, and its going to be a fun one to watch.

Facebook gives the impression of rattled.

Its entire business model relies on unfettered access to whatever data it fancies taking.

Apple is letting users shut this down, and of course most of us will.

And it’s likely that means things are going to get really ugly.