Apple privacy tools ‘give everyone protection, not just tech experts’

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Apple’s expanding array of privacy controls is about ensuring everyone is able to control their data “without themselves being a privacy expert”, Apple’s head of software engineering has said.

Last week, the tech giant previewed a number of new privacy tools coming to the next versions of software that power the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers, including ways to reduce online tracking and other online data collection.