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Interesting stuff.
Wonde Tadesse
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hxxps://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2020/12/18/Apples-Privacy-Nutrition-Facts.html
Most people are already aware that Facebook has terrible privacy practices, but Apple still deserves a lot of credit for exposing Facebook so publicly on their official platform. Raising awareness about privacy is terrific, and this is definitely the right direction. So what’s the catch?
The problem with Apple’s App Privacy is that it’s entirely self-reported. The app developer gets to make whatever privacy claims they want, and none of that information is vetted. There’s no verification by Apple or by any other source.
App Privacy is not new. It’s re-branding and simplification of the Privacy Policy, aka the “We Pinky-Promise to Not Steal Your Data” document. Unfortunately, App Privacy doesn’t fix the Privacy Policy’s inherent and critical flaw: Privacy Policies contain no proof of the privacy claims they make.
Apple doesn’t verify any of the App Privacy information that app developers submit - because they can’t. There is currently no way for Apple to know what an app does with user data after the data is sent to the app. But by calling it equivalent to “Privacy Nutrition Labels”, Apple irresponsibly implies that this privacy information is vetted, when that is absolutely false.
This results in two unintended consequences: it creates a false sense of security for users, and an incentive for more dishonest and privacy-invasive apps in the App Store.
hxxps://apps.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215
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Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: This results in two unintended consequences: it creates a false sense of security for users,
Unintended? Got news for you, that consequence was entirely intended!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Google’s Project Zero has released proof of concept code for a high severity elevation of privilege flaw in Windows 10. Maybe just a tie next year?
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Those who clicked were told they ‘failed’ the test. GoDaddy can Go{Somewhere else} for this stunt
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Emails from IT and HR are now phishing?
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They resemble small fragments of charcoal, but the soil samples collected from an asteroid and returned to Earth by a Japanese spacecraft were hardly disappointing. Barbeque time!
I suppose Unagi to be culturally appropriate
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Severe storms have recently hit beaches in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, causing big waves, and big damage. Of course they are - This. Is. Australia.
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It has to be poisonous sea snakes (else it isn't really Australia.)
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Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel are indispensable. Here's mine. Download a present for yourself
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Game Off is our annual month-long game jam. This year’s theme was “moonshot,” and there were more than 500 tre-moon-dous submissions! So you can get your game on
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Attendee limit for Microsoft 365 live events has been extended until June of next year Now how am I going to get free T-shirts?
and other swag
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Reducing tedious and repetitive work while minimizing human error? The latest approach to software development, delivery and management promises just that. Maybe we'll even get Code as Code (CaC)!
From DevOps to DevDev!
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The average developer rates their happiness at 61 out of a potential 100 points, compared to the average OECD citizen who rates their happiness at 65. If you're happy and you know it - compile your code
Interpreted code developers are on their own.
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How do you mix the irrational world of pi with the real world of . . . goats? This is the spirit of a long-unsolved math problem that sounds deceptively simple. Now: how much rope for the hamster problem?
Of course I don't mean to diminish this very important solution. And now my goat is much happier.
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A new study suggests that alien civilizations destroyed themselves through progress, meaning our galaxy could be full of dead alien civilizations. This research brought to you by Wild Guesses University
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And what does that say about our own future? 
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Withough having read your message...[^]
I suppose it is true: Great minds think alike  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Don't worry, humans are different. Greed will destroy them way before they make enough progress.
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If they are just going to guess, this theory is as good as any other, and a hell of a lot more melodic.
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Quote: No single factor is more important than the idea that intelligent creatures generally have a tendency that leans toward self-annihilation
Based on their sample size of 1, it must be true!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The sample size is arguably zero; humans aren't self-annihilating. Progress has demonstrably improved our lives and reduced conflict.
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For a while...
but, when something come, then it will be more devastating than what happened in the time without progress.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I'm not as optimistic as you, I think our ability to heal is equaled only by our ability to do harm.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sen. Proxmire was right - NASA is overfunded. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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