California Wild Fires are brutal

I am already taking care of of our 7 month old full time, but we are also surrounded by the California wild fires, so it might take me a little while to do any posts. I already have literally zero free time. And have been doing posts on my iPhone, which is almost always dead as it is my only access to the internet.

So I will get back to regular posts, but it might take me a little bit.

I already know people who have lost their houses and who are watering their places to keep embers from catching, so we are pretty lucky so far, so everyone keep safe.

9to5Mac on Data Brokers may be forced to use protections that credit bureaus use

Data brokers may be banned from selling your personal data without good reason

From Ben Lovejoy on 9to5Mac.

This is a nice first step, as they can only use your data for things like credit checks, but data brokers should be illegal anyway. And in fact companies should be fines for every time they breach or release any of your personal data[

Merry Christmas

Hope you are all having a great holiday season!

We are having a wonderful holiday with family and hope you all do too.

Macworld on that the iOS App Store needs to become more like the Mac

Jason Snell at Macworld has this interesting article.

And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!

And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.

Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.

They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.