A Suffolk man has been jailed for several years after hacking the iCloud accounts of several women and sharing their intimate pictures online. Tony Spencer, 38, of Victoria Hill, Eye, was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court late last week after admitting his guilt in September 2019 to these cases and secretly filming women and children...Read More

In spite of Apple having turned over the shooter’s iCloud backups in the case of the Pensacola, Florida mass shooting last month, the US government has been raking it over the coals for supposedly not helping law enforcement in investigations. But according to a new allegation, Apple has been far more accommodating than the FBI...Read More

Apple dropped plans to offer end-to-end encrypted cloud back-ups to its global customer base after the FBI complained, a new report has claimed. Citing six sources “familiar with the matter,” Reuters claimed that Apple changed its mind over the plans for iCloud two years ago after the Feds argued in private it would seriously hinder...Read More

Apple has confirmed that it’s automatically scanning images backed up to iCloud to ferret out child abuse images. As the Telegraph reports, Apple chief privacy officer Jane Horvath, speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, said that this is the way that it’s helping to fight child exploitation, as opposed to...Read More