Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research

Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately depicts what was captured by the iPhone's camera sensor. Apple Reference Image…

Note: Here's a single-paragraph summary of [Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography](#rid:1855864961): Apple introduces Apple Reference Image, an opt-in camera mode debuting on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max that produces securely timestamped "reference images" proving a photo genuinely came from a real iPhone camera sensor at a specific time. As AI makes photorealistic fakes and…

App Life in China

“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before…

RSS: Read The Internet Without It Reading You

Sometimes, the old ways are better...

Make Yourself Expensive: A Field Guide to Shrinking Your Data Footprint

Asked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined.

KitKat’s newest product is . . . a Faraday cage? - Fast Company

KitKat's new wrapper is a pouch designed to block signals to your phone.

How WhatsApp Took Over the Global Conversation

The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike, Sam Knight writes. What are we all doing there?

How to Disappear: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Privacy Experts

Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

A Brief History of NSA Backdoors.

k-anonymity, the parent of all privacy definitions - Ted is writing things

How a privacy researcher proved a politician wrong, and how she created the first ever definition of anonymity in the process.

In this article, I'll describe and analyze Sweeney's successful reidentification attack,

these factors appear to be necessary: remove one of them and suddenly, the attack no longer works.

Privacy-Safe Attribution Avoids User Tracking

A new attribution approach uses large sets of anonymized data to infer which channels and campaigns led to conversions.

The Secret History of Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy

A story of secrecy, resistance, and the fight for digital freedom.

The 18 HIPAA Safe Harbor identifiers explained

Summarizing and explaining the 18 rules for HIPAA Safe Harbor (and the so-called 19th rule). What are the rules and their rationale? Alternative to Safe Harbor.

Privacy-focused Brave Search grew by 5,000% in a year

Brave Search, the browser developer's privacy-centric Internet search engine, is celebrating its first anniversary after surpassing 2.5 billion queries and seeing almost 5,000% growth in a year.

Privacy UX: Privacy-Aware Design Framework — Smashing Magazine

Many mobile applications require access to location, photos, and even the camera during installation, which isn’t something most customers would be happy to consent to. In this series of articles, Vitaly Friedman talks about privacy-related design patterns. You’ll be exploring…