Here’s how you can safeguard your privacy on the Internet
Now there’s an efficient, stress-free way – and an exclusive offer for 9to5Mac readers – to take steps to protect personal information online.
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Here’s how to remove your personal information from the internet
Safeguarding your personal information online has become a paramount concern, but there’s no need to panic because there are effective ways to remove your personal information from the internet.
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Obama weighs in as China demands access to data services provided by U.S. companies
President Obama has publicly criticized China’s plans to expand ‘security’ policies that would effectively prevent U.S. tech companies like Apple selling their products in China without completely compromising data security.
Reuters reports that the Chinese government plans to require foreign tech companies to host in China all data servers used by their products, and to allow the government access to the data. As this would include iCloud backups, this would provide the Chinese government with complete access to all data stored on iPhones and iPads sold in China.
In an interview with Reuters, Obama said he was concerned about Beijing’s plans for a far-reaching counterterrorism law that would require technology firms to hand over encryption keys, the passcodes that help protect data, and install security “backdoors” in their systems to give Chinese authorities surveillance access …
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Tim Cook met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during Berlin visit, talked privacy, security & more
It seems Tim Cook had more on his schedule than a meeting with BILD during his visit to Berlin yesterday: the newspaper reports that he also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Cook told BILD that they discussed security, net neutrality, environmental protection and education–but the key topic appears to have been data privacy.
Cook said that he could well understand Germany’s strong stance on data privacy, stating that Germans “have the same views on privacy as I do” …
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