Whether you work in the C-suite or in a line role, if you don’t want to be left behind, figure out how to evolve so you can help the company meet its digital. Illinois Wants To Ban Location Tracking Without Consent. It’s increasingly difficult to do anything on your phone nowadays without sharing your geolocation information. Certain Snapchat filters, Facebook status updates, Instagrams, and even text messages are all potentially tied to geolocation data. It’s relatively simple for app developers to build in geolocation functionality—and many services require users to opt- in to sharing location data. But now the state of Illinois wants ensure that all companies extracting geolocation data from individuals must provide an opt- in, or else they’ll have to pay up. Last week, both houses of the Illinois state legislature passed the Geolocation Privacy Protection Act (HB3. ![]() ![]() Now, it’s on the desk of Governor Bruce Rauner, waiting to be signed into law. If signed, companies would be required to inform users of how they’re using the location data they collect, if the users decides to share it. Companies who don’t adhere would be in violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and would face criminal penalties and damages of at least $1,0. There are a few exceptions to the law. For instance, private entities can collect geolocation data without consent if the information will help parents find missing children or aid firefighters, police, or medical professionals. The new law might not have a huge real- world impact, given that most devices and apps already ask people for permission before they start using location data. But this might encourage more tech companies and app developers to give users the option to opt out of being tracked. There have been plenty of times in the past when companies have faced repercussions for tracking users without their consent. For instance, Apple and Uber have been sued for allegedly tracking un- notified users. Ari Scharg, director of the Digital Privacy Alliance (DPA), told Gizmodo that the organization has done reports on the apps Selfie. Rate Selfie Pic Hot Or Not, which give developers precise GPS coordinates whenever a person uploads a photo.“When a person is just browsing through the photos to rate them, if they were intercepting the backend traffic, they would be able to get the GPS coordinates of each person they viewed,” Scharg said. Overall, a person could use this information to stalk someone or the owner of the picture could retaliate against a person that left a bad comment if they were capturing the traffic.”The DPA urges app developers to be transparent with users by clarifying how location data is being used. The organization has been advocating for the bill, and even wrote an open letter to Governor Rauner, which was signed by more than 2. Chicago- area tech companies. Illinois has a reputation of passing strict data privacy legislation. The state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act prohibits tech companies from using biometric identifiers—like face scans and fingerprints—without consent. Their Right To Know Act—which passed in May, but was put on hold—requires companies such as Facebook, Amazon, and Google to disclose what data has been collected from consumers and shared with third parties.[Naked Security]. What to Do Now That You Can’t Sync i. OS Apps Using i. Tunes. If you’ve been using your computer to manage the apps for your i. OS device, that time has come to an end. The latest update to Apple’s i. Tunes removes its access to the i. OS App Store, as well as the ability to manage i. OS apps, with the company expecting you to handle all that app- related business on your i. OS device itself. So long, app syncing. How to Manage Your Apps. If you decide to update to i. Tunes 1. 2. 7 (or if it automatically updates itself), you’ll be greeted with a message telling you to manage your apps or ringtones on your i. OS device instead of on i. Tunes. The update also moved its i. Tunes U content, placing it into the Podcasts section of the app. You’ll still be able to manage media like music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks, but besides the ability to share files (like documents, presentations, or comic books) between supported i. OS apps and your computer, all other aspects of app management, including icon rearrangement, have been removed. It only took five years since the inductive charging standard’s adoption by nearly every major…Read more Having more than one way to manage your apps was always convenient, even if the i. Tunes interface was a bit clunky. Luckily, you can download, delete, or redownload your apps on your i. OS device, and without much hassle. Here’s how you can redownload your apps: Open the App Store app. Phone or i. Pod touch users: Tap Updates, then tap Purchased (i. Pad owners: Tap Purchased). Tap “Not on This [device].”Find the app that you want to download, then tap the download icon. What About Apps Unavailable in the App Store? If you’re like me, you’re probably using an app or two that isn’t exactly “available” anymore in the App Store. If you’re worried your favorite unlicensed Tetris clone will disappear from your phone after it disappeared from the App Store, you can breathe a little easier—as long as you have a copy of the actual app file. App files (ending in . Tunes Media folder on your computer: Mac: /Users/username/Music/i. Tunes/i. Tunes Media. Windows 7 or later: Open C: \Users\username\My Music\i. Tunes\i. Tunes Media. Since you can’t manage the apps using i. Tunes interface, you’ll have to use your computer’s file explorer alongside the i. Tunes window. Plug your i. OS device in your computer, find the actual app file, and simply drag it on top of your device when it shows up in the i. Tunes sidebar. You can use the same method to manually add ringtones and books. Since your outcast apps probably haven’t updated to support 6. Phone 8 or face- scanning i. Phone X. In fact, i. OS 1. 1 ends support for older 3. OS 1. 1 device will lose support for 3. Come September 1. OS 1. 1 is released to the public, you’ll have to say goodbye to your obsolete apps. Here’s how you can figure out which apps are along for the ride and which ones are destined for the great 3. App Store in the sky. Apple starts cutting the bloat from i. Tunes by removing i. OS App Store | The Verge.
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