Facebook has apparently found yet another way to harvest data, but this time it's related to biometrics, and it has wrangled Instagram into the mess as well.
Facebook facing a lawsuit over illegally harvesting biometrics in Instagram
Privacy
How to view which iOS or Mac app is using camera or mic
Protect your privacy and find out when your iPhone, iPad, or Mac camera or microphone is recording, which app is using it, which app recently did, and revoke that app’s access if needed.
How to stop iPhone apps from accessing all your photos
Learn how to restrict apps on your iPhone or iPad from accessing all your images and videos in your photo library, thus enhancing your privacy and security.
How to share only your approximate location with iPhone apps
Learn how to improve your online privacy by sharing only your approximate location with apps that request it.
Quorra brings iOS 14’s privacy indicator dots to jailbroken iOS 13 devices
When iOS & iPadOS 14 are released this Fall, the software updates will introduce a bevy of useful new features to the iPhone and iPad platforms. Perhaps one of the most intriguing features that seemed to slip under the radar are the new privacy-centric indicator dots that appear the top of the display when an app or service begins accessing your handset’s camera, location, or microphone.
This particular feature was so highly sought after that even the Android community quickly developed a way to port this feature to their handsets. Unfortunately for those running iOS & iPadOS 13 or earlier, a similar solution wasn’t available – at least not until now, thanks to a new and free jailbreak tweak release dubbed Quorra by iOS developer Lightmann.
Apple’s new ‘Find My’ Network Accessory Program is reportedly limiting third-party options in big ways
Apple has a way of skirting around admitting it's done anything "wrong", simply by ignoring or denying pointed accusations until it can basically fix the problem with its own implementation of a new feature or something similar.
How to protect access to Facebook Messenger on your iPhone or iPad with Face ID or Touch ID
The Messenger app for iPhone and iPad includes a handy security feature that allows you to secure your chats from prying eyes. You can protect all your Facebook messages with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode.
Follow along as we show you how to lock Facebook Messenger on your iPhone or iPad and adjust how quickly Messenger locks after you close the app.
Effortlessly spoof any jailbroken iPhone’s location on iOS 13 with Relocate Reborn
One of the most popular things you can do with a jailbroken iPhone or iPad is spoof your location. A number of jailbreak tweaks let you do this, but perhaps one of the most simplistic of those releases launched last Summer and was called Relocate by iOS developer Nepeta.
After being on an extended jailbreak tweak development hiatus, Nepeta is now back with the community and has launched an updated version of the aforementioned tweak dubbed Relocate Reborn with full support for iOS 13. As you might come to expect, Relocate Reborn is just as easy to use as the original Relocate tweak, but it comes with a number of additional features that you may find extraordinarily useful.
ScreenFreeze thwarts snooping when handing your iPhone to someone to share a photo
It’s not uncommon at all for someone to hand their iPhone to another person. Albeit a temporary action, this happens when someone wants another person to view a photo or video, try an app or game, or assist them with a troubleshooting matter. As common as this act is, a legitimate concern is what the person will do with your iPhone after you hand it to them.
If you’re among the group of people who get paranoid about someone rifling through your personal data upon handing them your iPhone, and you're certainly not alone, then you’ll probably come to appreciate the likes of a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed ScreenFreeze by iOS developer Greg0109.
How to remove contact suggestions from the share menus on your iPhone and iPad
Check out the steps to disable the contacts row from the top of the iOS Share Sheet that appears when sharing items from apps on iPhone and iPad.
Control iOS clipboard access on a per-app basis with NoClipboardForYou
I have a hard time trusting apps with my privacy as it is, but my worries run deeper when they’re realized by app makers that seemingly have zero interest in conserving user privacy, but rather harvesting user data for the sake of profit or surveillance.
Examples that struck irritating chords with me included learning that popular apps like LinkedIn and TikTok snooped on users’ clipboards without their permission. Apple’s upcoming iOS 14 update makes users more aware of app-centric clipboard access, but if you don’t plan to update because you’re jailbroken, then you can use a newly released and free jailbreak tweak called NoClipboardForYou by iOS developer shiftcmdk instead.
iOS 14’s new paste notification feature shames TikTok into ending clipboard snooping
iOS and iPadOS 14 double down on privacy with a myriad of new features, including notifying you when an app or a widget access the system clipboard. Nest of all, this feature has already forced TikTok to promise to stop accessing the iOS clipboard after it was discovered that the app is grabbing clipboard content every few seconds.