...Luckily, Yosemite’s search-snooping can be switched off in seconds. In Mac OS X’s System Preferences, the functions can be found under “Spotlight” and then “Search Results.” From there you need to disable “Spotlight Suggestions,” “Bookmarks and History,” and “Bing Web Searches.” If you use Safari you will then need to disable the same “Spotlight Suggestions” function in the browser (under “Preferences” and then “Search”) to avoid having terms you type into its address bar shared with Apple by default too. To make that privacy fix even simpler, developer Landon Fuller has written it into a simple Python script that he calls “Fix-MacOSX,” which he’s made available for download. “Mac OS X has always respected user privacy by default, and Mac OS X Yosemite should too,” the site reads. “Since it doesn’t, you can use the code to the left to disable the parts of Mac OS X which are invasive to your privacy.” The script is only the first step in what Fuller describes as a continuing project to identify ways that Yosemite “phones home” to Apple and to plug those privacy leaks... wired/2014/10/how-to-fix-os-x-yosemite-search/?mbid=social_fb {Thanks for Sharing Ronald!}
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:57:18 +0000
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