{"id":207408,"date":"2026-01-28T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple-computerworld\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:55:11","slug":"happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Data Privacy Week from Apple \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4123603\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple.html\">Happy Data Privacy Week from Apple \u2013 Computerworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4123603\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple.html\">https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4123603\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 11:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.computerworld.com\">www.computerworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cData gathered from smartphones enables service providers to infer a wide range of personal information about their users, such as their traits, their personality, and their demographics. This personal information can be made available to third parties, such as advertisers, sometimes unbeknownst to the users. Leveraging location information, advertisers can serve ads micro-targeted to users based on the places they visited. Understanding the types of information that can be extracted from location data and implications in terms of user privacy is of critical importance,\u201d an important research report\u00a0warned five years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Controversially, it was revealed last October that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) uses a location surveillance tool to track mobile devices. (Let\u2019s hope that Apple\u2019s latest improvement to network privacy protection might help de-escalate tensions, as conversation doesn\u2019t yet seem to have been enough.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018This is surveillance\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Not so many years ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook\u00a0discussed this seedy side of the data trade: \u201cOur own information \u2014 from the everyday to the deeply personal \u2014 is being weaponized against us with military efficiency,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cThese scraps of data, each one harmless enough on its own, are carefully assembled, synthesized, traded and sold. Taken to the extreme, this process creates an enduring digital profile and lets companies know you better than you may know yourself. Your profile is a bunch of algorithms that serve up increasingly extreme content, pounding our harmless preferences into harm. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4123603\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Data Privacy Week from Apple \u2013 Computerworld https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4123603\/happy-data-privacy-week-from-apple.html Publish Date: 2026-01-28 11:52:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4123603-0-34151200-1769619130-Apple-Downtown-Detroit-interior-250919_aa72a0.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207410,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207408\/revisions\/207410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}