Vratislav Holub In this regular column, every day we look at the most interesting news that revolves around the California company Apple. We focus here exclusively on the main events and leave aside all speculations and various leaks. So if you are interested in current events and want to be informed about the apple world, definitely spend a few minutes on the following paragraphs.
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Pavel Jelic A camera compatible with Apple HomeKit is coming to the market
Nowadays, there is no doubt that the so-called smart homes are booming. Most of us probably already own or are thinking about smart lighting that can provide us with effective comfort. Recently, we can hear a lot about smart security elements, where we can also include smart cameras themselves. The Eve Cam camera is currently heading to the market, which we saw already in January at the CES trade fair. The camera is designed for home security and is fully compatible with Apple HomeKit. Let's take a look at this product together and discover its main advantages.
Eve Cam can record in FullHD resolution (1920 x 1080 px) and offers a great 150° viewing angle. It is still equipped with an infrared motion sensor, night vision with which it can see up to five meters away, and offers a microphone and speaker for two-way communication. The camera can shoot high-quality footage, which it then saves directly to iCloud. But if you pay for larger storage (200 GB or 1 TB), with the support of the HomeKit Secure Video function, the recordings will not count towards your space. A huge advantage is that the videos and transmissions are transmitted with end-to-end encryption, and the motion detection itself passes directly in the core of the camera. All recorded material is stored on iCloud for ten days, when you can view it directly from the Home application. Rich notifications are also definitely worth mentioning. These will go to you directly from the aforementioned Household, in case of motion detection and others. The camera eve-cam you can currently pre-order for €149,94 (roughly 4 thousand crowns) and shipping should start on June 23.
Google in trouble: It spied on users in incognito mode
The Google Chrome browser enjoys immense popularity among Internet users, and without a doubt we can call it one of the most popular. In addition, it is no secret that Google tries its best to collect data about its users, thanks to which it can perfectly personalize advertising and thus adequately address the largest possible group. But if you don't want to be tracked on the Internet, you don't want to leave behind any history or cookie files, you will understandably decide to use the anonymous window. This promises the maximum possible anonymity, when only the network administrator, Internet provider or the operator of the visited server will get an overview of you (which can still be bypassed using a VPN). Yesterday, however, a very interesting lawsuit came to Google. According to her, Google collected the data of all users even in anonymous mode, thereby illegally encroaching on their privacy.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Jose, California, accuses Alphabet Inc (which includes Google) of collecting information despite people's wishes and promises to be so-called incognito. Google allegedly collects the mentioned data using Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager and other applications or add-ons, and it doesn't even matter whether the user clicked on an advertisement from Google or not. The problem should also concern smartphones. By collecting this information, the world's largest search engine was able to find out a lot of valuable information about the user himself, among which we can include, for example, his friends, hobbies, favorite food and what he likes to buy.
But the biggest problem is that people don't want to be tracked when using incognito mode. Think for yourself. What sites do you visit when you go incognito? In the vast majority of cases, this is sensitive or intimate information that could embarrass us in a moment, or harm us and tarnish our name. According to the lawsuit, this problem should affect several million users who browsed the Internet using anonymous mode since 2016. For violations of federal wiretapping laws and California privacy laws, Google should prepare $5 thousand per user, which may result in climb up to 5 billion dollars (roughly 118 billion crowns). How the case will continue is unclear for now. Do you think Google will actually have to pay this amount?
In this respect, we can take our favorite company Apple for comparison. The giant from Cupertino directly believes in the privacy of its users, which is confirmed by several functions. About a year ago, for example, we could see for the first time a gadget called Sign in with Apple, thanks to which the other party cannot even get our email. As another example, we can cite an Apple promotion from January 2019, when during the CES fair, Apple bet on a billboard with the text "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone". Understandably, this text directly alludes to the well-known slogan "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas".
The anonymous mode in the previous browser was never used to "track" the user, but to remove everything associated with the window from the device after closing such a window. Need cookies, cache and history. Tracking is implemented by the websites themselves and is part of such a website.
At the same time, when an anonymous window is opened, existing cookies and sessions from non-anonymous windows are not downloaded. You feel the need to log in again. However, if you use the incognito window constantly, it's practically the same as using no mode.
Zaloba is nonsense if it really concerns the services mentioned in the article. But "This is Ameericaa!", so he'll judge something about it anyway...
It depends what Google had in terms of no. As the colleague states above in the comment, or below? Depending on how things are arranged here :), the anonymous window is probably not really useful for this. I only use it when I go to a page where I'm already logged in and I need to log in under a different username. Maybe because of a customer or something.
But if Google writes somewhere that this is the case, and that it really does not track anyone in the anonymous window, and at the same time it does so, then they are in hell.