Mac OS X also has its privacy problems.
Let me show you this video.
I think this is a good presentation of what the issues are.
Apple released a new operating system this weekend Yosemite and in it we found some surprising features
but I suspect most users would like to know about for example just bringing up Spotlight search the
feature you use to search for files on your operating system.
Now transmits your location and the name of the files you're searching for to Apple on a regular basis.
You'll notice that your location is being transmitted to Apple even though you're not showing the location
notification icon.
They have chosen to suppress the notification for worry that consumers will be overwhelmed with too
many notification messages.
What this means is if you've opted into location services then you've also opted into sharing your location
permissions silently with Apple.
You also notice that this information is being sent even before I start typing.
As we type our keystrokes are sent to Apple one by one.
I'm searching for a document on my computer called secret plans.
Obama like me.
But Apple receives that information along with my location and user IDs which is a unique string of
letters and numbers used to identify them.
Apple tells us that this changes every 15 minutes but we have to trust that it's not being linked to
the prior one.
Still they receive of this information.
You can definitely tell that we're here at The Washington Post.
Based on these coordinates
so to disable these things first thing is you want to go to System Preferences and then get a spotlight
and from Spotlight you can see all of the things that spotlight looks in inners do searches for you.
So this can be very useful but it can also be a privacy issue as you've just seen.
So you definitely want to switch of spotlight suggestions.
Also being web searches and then it's really up to you as to what you want to disable.
But I would suggest those two as a minimum you also need to disable spotlight suggestions in Safari
if of course you are using Safari be open safari.
Go to your preferences and click on the Security tab and then you want to select this one as it is at
the moment.
So you want to have sort of include spotlight's suggestions.
There is a shell script you can use to remove Marcos privacy issues and remove callbacks to Apple and
that you can find here.
So if you don't use push notifications spotlight suggestions or do not like to send your browser history
bookmarks and other things to apple then you can use this script but do make sure you're up here.
You actually look at the script and that you're happy with what it's doing.
Don't just run if you don't understand it.
Edit the config SH file to add or remove things you want to have enabled or disabled.
For more information on my privacy complaints you can see this Web site here does actually have an SSL
error.
It's expired as of recording which is not very good but it's just for providing information so you can
accept that and move on.
And just look at the information there and other side that will tell you more information about Macfarren
homes is this one you can check out.
And here this is netminder which is a tool kit for getting phone home behavior of all users and system
level processes.
On Mac OSS This is specifically designed for your Samiti as always look at the script before running.
And one last thing you want to be notified when location services are used.
So we do this by going here.
Your system preferences privacy and security men have to unlock this location services down here System
Services details and then if we click here show location icon in menu bar when System Services request
your location so essentially if Apple is wanting to request your location is going to notify you Don
and then we all.