Apple starts a new forest protection project – dispute with Duh around Greenwashing remains

Apple starts a new forest protection project - dispute with Duh around Greenwashing remains

Close Notice This article is therefore available in. It was translated with technical assistance and editorialy reviewed Before Publication. Don’t show this again. Apple started a major project with various partners to reduce its CO₂ footprint. The group puts money in a forest area in California in 2021 together with the Großbank Goldman Sachs and … Read more

Apple Card and Toyota escape US consumer protection

Apple Card and Toyota escape US consumer protection

Budget cuts by the US government have a detrimental effect on consumer protection. In addition to financial institutions, corporations such as Apple and Toyota, which have been caught with legal violations, also benefit from this. The US Federal Agency for Consumer Protection in Finance, CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau), is reduced to a minimum. The … Read more

Important for developers: Apple overtakes youth protection rating system

Important for developers: Apple overtakes youth protection rating system

Anyone who develops apps for the App Store should deal with Apple’s Altens rating system in the run-up to the rollout of new functions for child protection under iOS 26. There is there, the group warns in its development blog some changes in the future. If these are not observed, this can mean that apps … Read more

Tip: Share content via iCloud on “Advanced data protection”

Tip: Share content via iCloud on "Advanced data protection"

In your article on the subject of iCloud security, they highlight the end-to-end encryption “extended data protection”. Does the protection also apply if I release individual files with other people via iCloud parts or for processing? Only if you share content with certain people and all recipients have also activated the “extended data protection” (US … Read more

Berlin data protection authority wants to block Deepseek in app stores app

Berlin data protection authority wants to block Deepseek in app stores app

The Chinese Ki app Deepseek is to be blocked in the Apple and Google app. At least this is what the Berlin representative for data protection and freedom of information and has reported the app as illegal content. The reason is that Deepseek transferred users’ personal data to China and do not ensure that the … Read more

Video streaming: Praise for Apple’s data protection approach to Apple TV

Video streaming: Praise for Apple's data protection approach to Apple TV

Close Notice This article is therefore available in. It was translated with technical assistance and editorialy reviewed Before Publication. Don’t show this again. There are streaming boxes and streaming sticks like sand by the sea – from smaller providers and the very big ones such as Amazon and at some very reasonable prices. There are … Read more

Child protection: iOS 26 and Co. expand functions for parents

Child protection: iOS 26 and Co. expand functions for parents

With its new operating systems in autumn, Apple also introduces new opportunities to protect offspring. Parents can manage children’s accounts more easily and apps are given the opportunity to adapt their content based on the age of the users. Management of the family group When setting up a children’s account, child protection functions will be … Read more

Data protection settings on Apple devices: How to secure yourself properly

Data protection settings on Apple devices: How to secure yourself properly

The TCC subsystem takes care of the management of these permissions – for transparency, consent and control (transparency, approval and control). Under MacOS, it even regulates system -related access, such as automation or system volume. IOS/iPados, some of them, allow finely graded access – for example on selected contacts instead of the entire address book. … Read more

Protection of youth and diversity: EU countries want stricter rules for YouTube & Co.

Protection of youth and diversity: EU countries want stricter rules for YouTube & Co.

EU-wide regulations for television and services for video on call must take into account the rapidly changing landscape of the audiovisual media. This is the core message that the EU Council sends to the EU Commission from 2018 in the run-up to the amendment to the Audiovisual Media Services (AVMD). According to the representatives of … Read more

Data protection report for Apple Intelligence has so far been rare

Data protection report for Apple Intelligence has so far been rare

How often does Apple use the cloud for its AI functions and how often iPhone, Mac or iPad itself? This can be determined using an interesting integrated function, the so -called privacy report. However, this remains empty for many users. It is unclear why this happens. Transparency log shows no requests In contrast to its … Read more