Craig Federighi Talks About WWDC 2021 Privacy Features

Apple announced a swathe of new privacy features for its operating systems, and Apple VP Craig Federighi spoke about the new changes (via Fast Company).
WWDC 2021 Privacy
These are a few privacy features mentioned onstage at WWDC 2021:

App Privacy Report: With App Privacy Report, users can see how often each app has used the permission they’ve previously granted to access their location, photos, camera, microphone, and contacts during the past seven days.
Safari Private Relay: Private Relay ensures all traffic leaving a user’s device from Safari is encrypted, so no one between the user and the website they are visiting can access and read it, not even Apple or the user’s network provider. All the user’s requests are then sent through two separate internet relays.
Hide My Email: Built directly into Safari, iCloud settings, and Mail, Hide My Email also enables users to create and delete as many addresses as needed at any time, helping give users control of who is able to contact them.

Mr. Federighi says that the Private Relay technology is different than what a VPN does, and is more private:
We hope users believe in Apple as a trustworthy intermediary, but we didn’t even want you to have to trust us [because] we don’t have this ability to simultaneously source your IP and the destination where you’re going to–and that’s unlike VPNs.
He also believes Apple has a role in pushing the tech industry forward when it comes to adding privacy benefits:
But ultimately, when customers become aware of what they should expect, what they can expect, what is possible once they are made aware that the deal they thought they had to make–that actually, that’s not a deal they have to make— then the whole industry has to react to offer customers what they now realize they want and demand.
Apple users can start exploring these private changes to iOS 15 and others in the developer beta or the public beta which will launch in July.
Tags: iOS 15, iPadOS 15, privacy