In the news

This week, Apple and privacy were in the news.  First, Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote an article in Time magazine arguing that individuals have a right to privacy online and promoting legislation to protect privacy.  Although not mentioning them by name, the article seems directed toward companies like Facebook and Google.  (For example, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin of the Washington Post reported this week that the Federal Trade Commission is considering a record-setting fine against Facebook for privacy violations.)  Second, the online search engine Duck Duck Go, which has long presented itself as a place that you could go to search for websites while knowing that your privacy is being protected, announced this week that it will use Apple Maps for local searches on the web, as reported by Dieter Bohn of The Verge.  Google Maps has long been the king of online maps, and it is interesting to see Apple Maps being used as an alternative — not to mention seeing Apple Maps being used outside of an iPhone / iPad / Mac.  And now, the rest of the news of note from the past week:

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