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TECHNOLOGY CORNER Protect The Privacy of Your iOS 13 Device CHRISTOPHER B. HOPKINS It has been two years since we covered iPhone and iPad security in this column. The risks have only increased while several privacy settings have become more difficult to find. To echo the Fourth District’s recent assessment in a real-time cell phone tracking case: “[t]his presents significant privacy concerns.” Make sure your device is running iOS 13.x (Settings / General / Software Update) and then check the following: Apple Is Tracking You: Under Settings / Privacy / Location Services, scroll all the way down to System Services. Location-Based Apple Ads, Location-Based Suggestions, iPhone Analytics, Popular Near Me, and Routing & Traffic should be off. Turn off Significant Locations. Google Maps Is Tracking You: Open Google Maps and select your profile in the upper right corner. Select Your Data in Maps, then “See & delete activity.” Hit the three dots in the upper right corner and then Settings. They don’t make this easy, do they? For true security, Location History should be “off” and delete your all Location History. At a minimum, under “Automatically delete Location History,” choose “Keep for 3 months.” prevent this intrusion, go to Settings / Mail and toggle Load Remote Images to off. If an email contains an image you want to see, just click the banner at the top when you open the email. able to keylog what you type because you granted them “all access.” Make sure you know which apps can read your texts under General / Keyboard / Keyboards. Delete anything which is unfamiliar. I See When You Opened My Text: Under Are Text Messages Going to Other Devices? Settings / Messages, turn off “Send Read Are iMessages being pushed to other Receipts.” devices on your Apple account? Maybe. To keep your chats private, make sure Settings I See You Are Not in Your Office: Why / Messages / Send & Receive is set to your broadcast that you are out of the office? phone only and no other devices or email. Turn off “sent from my iPhone” under Settings / Mail / Signatures (leave it blank). Health: Unless you intended an app to There is still another trick. When sending a access this feature, only Health should be reply, your email will be entitled “Re:” when listed under Settings / Health / Data. you reply on a mobile device whereas it will be “RE,” with a capital E, if you are logged in via computer. So an email which is entitled, Christopher B. Hopkins handles privacy and “Re: [title]” is coming from a handheld cybersecurity matters with McDonald Hopkins device. When it matters, you can manually LLC ([email protected]) . capitalize the letter “e” to prevent leaking that information. AirDrop: Are you wasting battery and creating a security risk by constantly broadcasting an open AirDrop signal? In Settings / General / AirDrop, select Receiving Off. Are Photos Revealing Your GPS Location? By default, your device inserts location People Are Tracking You: Under Settings / data into your photographs which permits Privacy / Location Services, check under someone to find you if, for example, you Share My Location that this setting is off post that picture on social media. Under unless you trust the listed Friends. Location Services, scroll down to Camera and set to “never.” Apps Are Tracking You: Again, under Location Services, check the long list of We Can See Your Deleted Photos: Anyone apps. Most should be set to never or “while with access to your device can view recently using.” deleted pictures. Open the Photos app and scroll down to find your “Recently Deleted.” Turn Off Facebook’s Facial Recognition: Open that folder and choose Select and In the Facebook app, select the three lines Delete All. in the bottom right corner. Scroll down to Settings & Privacy and hit Settings. Under Access to Your Camera, Microphone, Privacy, select Face Recognition and hit Bluetooth: Under Settings / Privacy, check “no” to turn it off. these categories to see which apps have access to see, hear, and connect. Many apps I See You When You Opened My Email: If over-reach (e.g., why does LinkedIn need someone sends you an email with an image, access to your microphone?). Shut them they can tell when you opened that email out. If you need that feature while using the (it’s called a read receipt). When you open app later, it will notify you. the image, it remotely loads the image from the sender’s server which then reveals Keyboards: While you love to send GIF and when you opened the email. Gotcha! To Bitmoji images, those services may be PBCBA BAR BULLETIN 23 Judge Melanie Surber Robing Ceremony Friday, March 27, 2020 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Palm Beach County Courthouse 205 N Dixie Hwy Courtroom 11A West Palm Beach, FL 33401