Sensing opportunity – and GDPR – the Silicon Valley company launches major data protection push across devicesApple is launching a major privacy push,with software updates across all its devices to introduce current data privacy information immediately, with an updated website offering current privacy management tools to follow in May.
Thursday’s updates (macOS 10.13.4, and iOS11.3 and tvOS 11.3) are prompted by the enormous current European data protection regulation GDPR,and acquire been in the works since at least January. But they come at a superb time for the company, whose head Tim Cook has been merrily capitalising on the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, and publicly rebuking imprint Zuckerberg over the social network’s business model.
The European Union's current stronger,unified data protection laws, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or will come into force on 25 May 2018,after more than six years in the making. Related: Facebook logged SMS texts and phone calls without explicitly notifying users Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com