A look at the reaction to Apple’s E2EE announcements: the FBI says it is “deeply concerning” and “hinders” its work while the EFF and others express support (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

An Apple support document and compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple chose the iPhone 14 Plus name at short notice (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Sami Fathi / MacRumors:
An Apple support document and compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple chose the iPhone 14 Plus name at short notice — Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple’s website suggest this was the name originally intended …

September 29, 2022

Telegram CEO says it will disable paid posts in its iOS app after being told Apple was not happy with creators monetizing “without paying a 30% tax to Apple” (Sami Fathi/MacRumors)

Sami Fathi / MacRumors:
Telegram CEO says it will disable paid posts in its iOS app after being told Apple was not happy with creators monetizing “without paying a 30% tax to Apple” — Telegram’s CEO has accused Apple of destroying dreams and ruining entrepreneurship with its App Store rules …

October 28, 2022

Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps — Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google.

December 17, 2022

Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Google starts testing client-side encryption for Gmail with some Workspace users, and plans to add it to its Android and iOS apps — Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google.

December 17, 2022

A profile of Fog Data Science, which purchases raw geolocation data collected by mobile apps and sells it to law enforcement agencies for a subscription fee (Bennett Cyphers/Electronic Frontier …)

Bennett Cyphers / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
A profile of Fog Data Science, which purchases raw geolocation data collected by mobile apps and sells it to law enforcement agencies for a subscription fee — This article is part of EFF’s investigation of location data brokers and Fog Data Science. Be sure to check out our issue page on Location Data Brokers.

September 1, 2022

The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired:
The 2020 EncroChat hack led by French and Dutch police is facing growing legal challenges across Europe and the fallout could have global implications for E2EE — When police infiltrated the EncroChat phone system in 2020, they hit an intelligence gold mine. But subsequent legal challenges have spread across Europe.

January 5, 2023

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