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

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 .