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Apple adds user privacy protections, enables storage of IDs on iPhones

By Stephen Nellis

Jun 8 2021 6:07AM

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Apple adds user privacy protections, enables storage of IDs on iPhones

Apple will offer the ability to store state-issued identification cards digitally on iPhones and added user privacy protections on its iCloud storage service and email apps, among several updates to the software on its devices. It also showed updates to its FaceTime video chat app, adding the ...

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