The company made what can only be described as a metric ass-ton of announcements at its annual developer conference in San Francisco today. Most of its software has been changed in some way, and while those changes are compelling, none are as important as Apple’s commitment to privacy.
Some of those tweaks gave Apple the opportunity to collect personal data. Consider the updates made to Spotlight, which will now show information about the weather or professional sports in addition to data gathered from consumers’ devices, all of which could have been a huge blow to privacy.