'The other benefit is that Apple supposedly vets all submitted applications - but as we've clearly shown here, they (sometimes?) do a miserable job.)'įortunately, the newest version of Apple's OS appears to have addressed the first part of that. 'From a security and privacy point of view, one of the main benefits of installing applications from the official Mac App Store is that such applications are sandboxed,' Wardle blogged.
If you have one of the programs listed by GuardianApp, remove it – and beware other tools that may snaffle your location. It appears two dozen, at least, mobile apps from Apple's official store sell people's whereabouts to marketing firms. It's not just macOS applications leaking private data – 'a growing number of iOS apps have been used to covertly collect precise location histories from tens of millions of mobile devices,' GuardianApp reported before the weekend.
