Apple Closes All Retail Stores Outside China Due to Coronavirus Concerns

Apple is closing all stores worldwide outside China till March 27 as it takes new actions to protect employees and customers. It’s also pushing employees to work from home, and continuing to pay hourly workers.
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Apple Reopening Factories in China As the Country Gets Coronavirus ‘under Control’

Apple CEO TIm Cook says the company is reopening factories in China as the country slowly gets coronavirus ‘under control’, with number of new cases slowing.
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Sen. Rubio wants answers from Apple on privacy-violating app

Earlier this month, news broke that one of Apple’s most popular paid applications had been surreptitiously collecting user data and browser history and sending it to a server in China. On Wednesday, Sen. Marco Rubio wrote to Apple demanding answers on why it reportedly took the tech giant weeks to address the issue. “For a company that prides itself on prioritizing user privacy and security, this delayed response is extremely disconcerting,” Rubio, R-Fla., wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook. The application in question is Adware Doctor, a scanning tool that offers to remove adware from Mac computers. After security researchers published evidence on Sept. 7 that Adware Doctor was violating Apple’s data collection and storage rules, the company pulled it from the Mac App Store. But that was nearly a month after researcher @privacyis1st said he alerted Apple to the issue. Rubio, who has repeatedly raised national security concerns about technology […]

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