OP didn’t state their wife’s age but it is a safe assumption they are old enough to sign up for an email address.

You sort of left out a lot of context with that statistic that the article did include. Apple gets significantly fewer requests because the data they have is far less useful, that is generally a plus.

Cellular location data from the provider generally requires a warrant unless there are exigent circumstances. There has been a lot of controversy recently about warrants being granted that are too broad, the “every phone in this wide area” thing, but they are still warrants being granted by courts vs direct access.

That sort of “tell me every phone in the vicinity of this location” is the sort of request that Google typically has the data to fulfill and Apple generally does not (though the cell provider might).

It is, it works in two ways depending on the network type and Android version.

By default it creates a random MAC for each network that doesn’t change until a factory reset, even if you forget and connect again. This is on all devices.

Android 12 and up will change the MAC every so often on open networks without a captive portal, or if the network or an app specifies to do so. It it does this in between connections so won’t interrupt what you’re currently doing.

iOS functions like the first one currently, except I think deleting and adding will create a new one. It sounds like they are moving towards the second, but maybe with less logic?

If the default now is not private, and the rotating is opt in, isn’t it worse out of the box?

I liked that the default of private could still work with captive portals.

Guided Access locks you into a single app.

This hides and prevents opening specific apps, the rest of the phone is still accessible. It’s much more convenient as something you would configure and keep on all the time.

This article does not describe the feature well. It prompts to open, not when trying to exit.

The people paying the site are hoping to get some benefit from the advertising. Just blocking ads doesn’t waste their money. But, the extension’s main goal is to throw off surveillance and targeting stuff by fitting every category.

It’s a controversial approach.

I think they’re taking about accidental incidents like this one, but that is also a very interesting find.

Those things were “added later” to create iOS and Android, they aren’t from scratch systems. iOS especially shares a large portion of its code base with macOS (much of which is open source).

Yes, I was saying Google should implement the same thing.

It will be seen how they implement it, but since Google is creating their own version of the Find My network, it will likely be tied to activating that. If it’s anything like the way the iPhone does it, disabling Find My would turn it off, they might (should) also provide the option to turn it off when powering down your phone.

It is. DeleteMe also has DIY guides.

Especially Experian, who can apparently make money like an arms dealer by selling data and also offering to remove data.

It does kind of suck though. Those devices are less likely to be stolen but still have wide open access to everything with just a passcode.

Hopefully support is expanded to other devices.

The alternative is a separate passcode that many people will forget.

Curious about this too. From what I could find, for those it seems like the push is being used to wake up the app and tell it to connect to the server where it grabs the data and then creates the notification locally. Even if a bare minimum is used there is room for traffic analysis, and I imagine Google can easily tell the app being targeted for the push, but it shouldn’t mean the contents of the displayed notification are necessarily what was sent through the server. It’s hard to find info without digging because consumer-facing stuff just calls every notification a push notification.

The alternative is an app keeping a constant connection open to the server, which understandably mobile OSs don’t like. With push only the one service needs to keep an open connection to provide updates for all the apps.

Google Latitude was doing this in 2009 and I knew millennials who used it. Much more widespread now, though.

People who use those characters benefit from it. I imagine 點看 is more useful than xn–c1yn36f to a Chinese person. That’s also why Google displays them that way.

It would be nice if browsers warned when International Domain Names were in use, and provided the option to disable punycode when first encountered.

Aur is just repackaging the official Debian package, that’s a very straightforward process. Most distro repositories don’t work that way, they build the binaries themselves. Some interested party would need to put in the work.

Potentially only your devices. If they are encrypted on device with keys that the host does not have, it is still end to end encrypted with no way for them to recover. In the case of iCloud, this is how Advanced Data Protection works and even logging into the web only grants access to a subset of data (it is literally end to end encrypted between only user devices). When ADP is not enabled, some data is recoverable by Apple and some is not (when enabled a small bit still is, such as email because they need access for it to function, but far less).

Yes. The ends are user devices.

According to Apple they do not have the keys when you enable Advanced Data Protection, which is why they force you to have your own backup recovery methods (recovery key, recovery contacts). When they talk about E2E the endpoints they are referring to are user-owned devices.

iCloud Keychain recovery is also much more complex than you are describing.

In 2008 he donated $1000 in support of California Proposition 8. I don’t know of anything else, at least publicly. Californians also voted and passed the amendment 52%/47%, it was thrown out by the courts.

More recently in 2020 he did say some of the typical conservative stuff about COVID lockdowns, mask mandates, calling Fouci a liar, etc.

DDG extension lets you enable and manage their private email forwarding service. It can also be done through their mobile browser but less convenient.