- Feb 7, 2014
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In the current technology climate, privacy is every bit a commodity as the latest consumer gadget. With more and more everyday tech users understanding the ramifications of turning over control of their information to a corporation or the government, there’s big money to be made in guaranteeing that no one is looking over our shoulders.
Unfortunately, a lot of what drives the innovation behind our favorite new hardware or the latest app comes from violating our privacy…sort of. The autocorrect keyboard and predictive keyboard technology, for example, are powered largely from collected data from users’ own interactions with their devices.
But what if there was a way to collect data about how users play with their gadgets without ever really knowing who that person was and what they were doing? There is. Thanks to research from Microsoft that is now being put into use by Apple in the upcoming iOS version, tech companies can harvest the need-to-know information in a collective pool of data that has no ability to single out an individual user.
For more news on subject go here: Apple Adds New Privacy To iOS...Thanks To Microsoft - FileHippo News
Unfortunately, a lot of what drives the innovation behind our favorite new hardware or the latest app comes from violating our privacy…sort of. The autocorrect keyboard and predictive keyboard technology, for example, are powered largely from collected data from users’ own interactions with their devices.
But what if there was a way to collect data about how users play with their gadgets without ever really knowing who that person was and what they were doing? There is. Thanks to research from Microsoft that is now being put into use by Apple in the upcoming iOS version, tech companies can harvest the need-to-know information in a collective pool of data that has no ability to single out an individual user.
For more news on subject go here: Apple Adds New Privacy To iOS...Thanks To Microsoft - FileHippo News
