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Apple's handling of scary FaceTime spying bug shows that privacy is a right when it's good PR
Tuesday January 29, 2019. 04:42 PM , from Mac Central
In the span of about an hour last night, things went from bad to worse for Apple. What started with the report of a seemingly unbelievable bug ended with the disabling of one of the premium features of iOS 12 as Apple scrambled to save face and prevent an epic privacy snafu.Here’s what happened: After a tip, 9to5Mac exposed a weird FaceTime bug that let callers eavesdrop on the people they were calling, whether or not the person on the other end picked up or was even aware a call was coming in. The process isn’t exactly easy, involving adding your own number to a Group FaceTime call after dialing, but it’s not something out of the realm of inadvertently implementing it either.To read this article in full, please click here
https://www.macworld.com/article/3336208/apple/apples-facetime-bug-privacy.html#tk.rss_news
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