Yosemite, iOS 8, Spotlight, and Privacy: What you need to know

[iMore.com]

A story made the rounds earlier today calling into question the new Spotlight Suggestions feature in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8. In an effort to garner attention, it casts the collection and usage of the information required to enable this feature in a needlessly scary and, frankly, incompletely and perhaps even incorrect way. As any long time reader knows, security and privacy are always at odds with convenience, yet features like Spotlight Suggestions ? and Siri before it ? do an excellent job balancing as much convenience as possible with maintaining as much privacy and security as possible. Here's Apple's statement on the matter:

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