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Apple makes it more difficult for crooks and cops to look at your phone

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71% Informative

A change in the latest iPhone operating system makes it much more difficult for snoops of all sorts to take a peek at people's phones.

Detroit police sent out a memo explaining that the phones were "somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock" The inactivity reboot code stipulates that iPhones should automatically reboot themselves after a certain amount of inactivity time.

Inactivity reboot is similar to a feature found on Macs .

Mark Zuckerberg can't be held personally liable in lawsuits accusing his company of being "addictive" to children.

Australia 's states and territories unanimously backed a national plan to require most forms of social media to bar children younger than 16 .

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72

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71

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53

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semi-formal

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English

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59

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possibly offensive

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not hateful

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short-lived

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