5 posts and columns on loophole

Congress to Apple: One More Thing …

in News on March 14 at 2:44 pm PT

Looks like Congress isn’t quite through scrutinizing Apple’s consumer privacy protections.
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iOS Flaw Allows Developers Access to User Photos

in News on February 28 at 4:38 pm PT

A vulnerability in Apple’s iOS operating systems may be allowing some apps to access consumers’ photos and videos and associated location data. First reported by 9to5Mac, the loophole was recently examined by the New York Times, which confirmed that by allowing an iOS app access to location information, that app can then copy a user’s entire photo library — without any further notification or warning. Apple is reportedly at work on a fix.

Amazon: We Won’t Delete Your Kindle Books Unless We Need to Delete Your Books

in Media on October 1, 2009 at 8:10 am PT

It took several months–and a lawsuit–but Jeff Bezos and company are finally explaining when, and why, they’ll take away books you bought for your Kindle. Pretty reasonable, really.
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Jeff Bezos Apologizes for Kindlegate, but Can’t Promise It Won’t Happen Again

in Media on July 23, 2009 at 8:01 pm PT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t make it to his company’s earnings call today, but he did find time to apologize for Kindlegate–Amazon’s ham-fisted removal of George Orwell novels from his customers’ e-book readers. Great, right? Almost.
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What Book Will Amazon Delete Next?

in Media on July 21, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

Last week, Amazon acknowledged that it deleted some copies of “1984″ and “Animal Farm” from customers’ Kindles. So what book will be next? Because while Amazon has said it won’t repeat what it did last week, it hasn’t actually sworn off remote book-removal–or remote-anything removal, for that matter–altogether. Does that worry you? It should.
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