# Apple Guidance on Intimate Partner Surveillance

DevFeed: [Apple Guidance on Intimate Partner Surveillance](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/apple-guidance-on-intimate-partner-surveillance-36671.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/apple-guidance-on-intimate-partner-surveillance/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2021-05-06T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security & Privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [apple](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apple.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [information-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/information-security.md>), [safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/safety.md>), [surveillance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/surveillance.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines Apple's "Device and Data Access when Personal Safety is At Risk" guidance for reviewing and changing access to devices, accounts, shared information, and location. It connects intimate partner surveillance with information-security challenges and argues for a cybersecurity public health discipline that complements traditional information security.

## Source excerpt

Apple has released 'Device and Data Access when Personal Safety is At Risk' and I wanted to explore it a bit.