Take Control of iCloud, 9th Edition

Manage iCloud Security and Privacy

Throughout this book I’ve mentioned security and privacy issues connected to iCloud. But because of high-profile incidents involving data theft from iCloud users and increasing privacy concerns overall, I want to end the book with some advice about protecting your data.

In the digital world, the words security and privacy are often used interchangeably, but even though they’re related, they’re not the same. Security is freedom from danger or harm, whereas privacy is freedom from observation or attention. Someone can harm you by impersonating you, taking over your account, stealing or deleting data, and so on; security makes such harm less likely to occur. On the other hand, if someone reads your email messages, ...