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Instagram bans ad partner for secretly tracking user locations, saving Stories, more

August 8, 2019 admin

An extensive new report from Business Insider today details how the marketing startup Hyp3r was able to use Instagram loopholes to garner an incredible amount of information about users. Hyp3r took advantage of “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight by Instagram” to build “detailed profiles of people’s movements and interests.” more… The post…

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Apple reverses its stance, permanently bans Infowars app from the App Store

September 8, 2018 admin

A month after removing Infowars podcasts from Apple Podcasts, Apple today has removed the Infowars application from the App Store. The company confirmed the decision to BuzzFeed News late on Friday evening. more… 9to5Mac

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Apple Bans iFixit Developer Account and Removes App After Apple TV Teardown

October 1, 2015 admin

After the new fourth-generation Apple TV was announced on September 9, Apple provided developers with Apple TV Dev Kits to be used to create tvOS apps for the device. Teardown site iFixit took apart one of those Apple TV units meant for developers and has now run into some repercussions for doing so. According to…

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Apple yanks iFixit app from the store, bans developer account in response to Apple TV teardown

September 30, 2015 admin

The electronics repair site iFixit says that after it published its detailed teardown of the upcoming Apple TV hardware, Apple reached out to say that the company had violated the developer agreement and revoked the account that was used to obtain the device. The iFixit app, which was previously available on the App Store for free,…

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