News & Reviews:   privacy

From all the YouTube ads promoting how secure are Apple’s devices (nope, not skippable), we might already get the idea that the company values privacy very much. However, what we don’t know is the tech giant actually does not have the ability to access data that is being encrypted on an iPhone. From there, they have dissapointed the President of the United States, Donald Trump, as Apple refused to decrypt the data from criminals’ iPhones to assist the government.

Have you ever wondered how your profile is shown to the other users on Google Maps after all the ratings you’ve given to the locations you’ve been before? It is said that users were not allowed to edit their public profiles before but you are able to do it now!

By now, you should have noticed another new trend on your social media accounts. Friends and family are now trying and posting up their version of how they look being old, thanks to this app called FaceApp and yes, this is very similar to the previous #10YearsChallenge that happened earlier this year and you should probably be careful with this #AgeChallenge trend as well due to privacy concerns.

Facebook has officially announced that the “Why am I seeing this” feature, will be rolled out gradually on a global scale starting today which will provide users with various information as to why they are seeing certain posts on their News Feed directly from the app, as well as from their very own website. Not only that, but the new feature also provides various control options to help users customize their News Feed to their liking.