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Apple says Safari protects your privacy. We fact-checked those claims.

Washington Post via Yahoo: “…Apple deserves credit for making many privacy protections automatic with Safari, which you probably use to browse the web if you have an iPhone, Mac computer or iPad. But Albert Fox Cahn, executive director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said Safari is no better than the fourth-best web browser for your privacy. “If browser privacy were a sport at the Olympics, Apple isn’t getting on the medal stand,” Cahn said. (Apple did not comment about this.) The bottom line if you use Safari: You should feel reasonably good about the privacy (and security) protections, but you can probably do better – either by tweaking your Apple settings or using a web browser that’s even more private than Safari. I’ll dig into the details…”

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