Facebook, one of the world's largest social networks, is not happy about an impending new addition to iOS 14. That incoming privacy feature has the company up-in-arms, and it continues to warn other companies of the perceived pitfalls.
WhatsApp has silently updated its service terms and privacy policy in a way that enables the sharing of a significant amount of user data with Facebook, WhatsApp's parent company.
Apple's focus on privacy and user security continues to evolve, and sometimes that butts heads with other major companies out there. For instance, the companies who have built their business on gathering as much data as possible might not be happy with Apple's upcoming privacy-focused feature in iOS 14, which allows users to set limits on which apps can track them across other services and apps.
Social media has become such an integral part of peoples’ day to day lives that you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone without an app from this category on their smartphone or tablet. Be it Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or something else not listed here, the simple fact is many make use of these online tools in an effort to keep in touch with one another when they’re otherwise out of touch.
Facebook in the past two days took out two full-page ads in major US newspapers to try to push regulators into taking action against iOS 14's new ad-tracking controls, and now the iPhone maker's chief executive has responded to these attack ads with a tweet about privacy.
Less than 24 hours after it ran anti-Apple advertisements in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post newspapers in the United States, Facebook has now bought more full-page ads in an effort to have the general public support its stance on ad tracking.
Facebook today ran full-page advertisements in several major newspapers in the United States, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, criticizing Apple’s plan to restrict some data gathering with the latest iOS and iPadOS 14 software updates.
When making content, being able to share that content can be important. Now, Apple's making it easier to share to some of the most popular platforms in its first-party apps.
Today, the Federal Trade Commission has announced it is suing Facebook, one of the largest social networks out there, and aims to make some changes.
Before Apple launched iOS 14 to the public, it was confirmed (after an initial rumor) that Apple was delaying an important privacy feature.
Learn how to manually turn Dark Mode on or off in Facebook and Messenger on your iPhone, or have them follow your device’s Dark Mode settings.
A substantial number of veteran jailbreakers who relied on Cydia’s ‘Log in with Facebook’ mechanism to access their previous jailbreak tweak and extension purchases were met with frustration after the feature appeared to stop working last June.
Fortunately, the problem now appears to be fixed, as noted by a couple of Tweets shared just this weekend by Cydia creator Jay Freeman, also known more colloquially to the jailbreak community as Saurik: