Here's how to download your personal data from Apple

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Apple's data and privacy initiatives are expanding.

The ability to obtain the data Apple has about you now extends to customers in the U.S and Canada. It follows updates that brought its privacy pages into compliance with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (aka GDPR), which went into effect earlier this year.

Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal was a turning point for digital privacy. Consumers are now much more savvy about the data companies collect about them. Even though Apple's business model doesn't revolve around user data in the same way a free social network's does, it still needs to collect some data in order for its services to work and compete with those of Google, Amazon, and others. Read more...

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