Privacy risks from iOS photo metadata
There’s a ton of very personal information associated with a photo that you take with your smartphone. By default, the phone captures all of the camera settings (aperture, shutter speed, focal length)....
View ArticlePrivacy Consent in Mojave (part 1: media and documents)
MacOS Mojave brings new user control over applications’ access to user data, camera, microphone, and AppleScript automation. This two-part series describes our experience adopting the new privacy...
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This two-part series discusses lessons learned in controlling the user consent for access to private information by a third part program in macOS Mojave. In Part 1 of this discussion, we saw how to...
View ArticleSnap Judgment #934 (Secrets of War) Is a Wonderful Work of Fiction
Walter Mitty is alive and well, and living in Snap Judgment episode 934. It’s a very entertaining episode, in the sense that any good work of historical fiction or science fiction is entertaining. Snap...
View ArticleSome Observations about App Camp for Girls operations
I was sad to hear App Camp for Girls’s announcement that they will not be offering any camps this year. There’s been a deserved outpouring of support and good wishes for the future of the organization....
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