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Apple’s nonfree Safari browser spies on users for the Chinese company Tencent – archived source

Apple Safari browser sends some user IP addresses to Chinese conglomerate Tencent by default It’s unclear when Apple started allowing Tencent and Google to log some user IP addresses By Tom Parker – October 10, 2019 Posted 9:25 pm During the last week, the reality that US companies often bend the knee to China has been thrown […]
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Apple aids China in censorship – archived source

Apple’s capitulation to China’s VPN crackdown will return to haunt it at home Mike Butcher@mikebutcher / 6:11 PM GMT+2•July 30, 2017 Headache? Tense nervous headache? Perhaps your name is Tim Cook. For poor Tim has woken up this Sunday morning with a giant headache, and its name is China. Yesterday Apple removed all major VPN apps from its […]
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Apple aids China in censorship

Under the pressure of the Chinese government Apple removed all VPN apps from their App Store in the Chinese region. These apps helped to access content which otherwise would be inaccessible from within China as internet content is strictly controlled by the Chinese government to silence critical voices. By aiding the Chinese government in this […]
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Apple censors information about abortion providers – archived source #2

Apple, your anti-choice tendencies are showing in your app store Jess Zimmerman – Wed 23 Sep 2015 11.45 BST The rejection of the ‘Hinder’ app is a symptom of the tech giant’s ongoing hostility toward reproductive rights Lady Parts Justice, a self-described “cabal” of pro-choice comedians, released a satirical app called “Hinder” that lets you […]
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Apple forces content on users

In a PR stunt to promote their media platform iTunes, Apple initiated the delivery of U2’s then new album for free. Users found out the content had been loaded automatically without consent onto their accounts and could not find a way to remove it. This may seem a harmless incident but shows how the vendor […]
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Apple forces content on users – archived source

Apple’s free U2 album perplexes, annoys some The album may appear on your iPhone or iPad whether you want it or not, a move that apparently is ticking off a number of iTunes users. Lance Whitney – Sept. 11, 2014 8:44 a.m. PT Apple has automatically gifted the latest album from the group U2 for […]
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Apple censors information about abortion providers

When looking for information about abortion clinics via Apple’s assistant there might be no results depending on which place in the USA the search is conducted. The assumption is Apple is bending to the will of lobbyists who condemn abortion and other practices. source #1: http://web.archive.org/web/20120109122133/https://www.alternet.org/story/153248/why_is_iphone’s_siri_hiding_abortion_info_10_things_the_device_will_help_you_get_instead_of_abortion archived source #1: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2011/11/29/apple-censors-information-about-abortion-providers-archived-source/ source #2: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/23/apple-anti-choice-tendencies-showing-in-app-store-reproductive-rights archived source […]
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Apple censors information about abortion providers – archived source #1

Why Is iPhone’s Siri Hiding Abortion Info? 10 Things the Device Will Help You Get Instead of Abortion Raw Story / By Megan Carpentier Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, may struggle to help you find a legitimate abortion clinic, but ask where to bury a dead body or get a blow job, and she’s got loads of […]
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Apple’s mail service silently censors the mail people send

It was found that EMails which are sent via Apple’s mail service are scanned and based on the found content the company can decide not to deliver the message without notifying the user about it. This displays an excessive privacy violation. source: https://www.cultofmac.com/103703/apple-may-be-invisibly-filtering-your-outgoing-mobileme-email-exclusive/ archived source: https://wellthissucks.xyz/2011/07/07/apples-mail-service-silently-censors-the-mail-people-send-archived-source/
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Apple’s mail service silently censors the mail people send – archived source

Apple May Be Invisibly Filtering Your Outgoing MobileMe Email [Updated With Apple’s Response] BY JOHN BROWNLEE • 11:52 AM, JULY 7, 2011 Apple is invisibly filtering outgoing messages sent with its popular MobileMe webmail app based upon their content, Cult of Mac can exclusively confirm. That means that if Apple doesn’t like the way you’ve written an outgoing […]
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