Taking a cue from iOS, Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" introduced new systems to help users manage access requests to potentially sensitive and private personal information. When an app required access to a user's Contacts, for instance, a consent prompt appeared on screen asking the user to allow or disallow this access. Broadly, this system is known as TCC or transparency, consent and control. With each version of macOS, Apple broadens the scope of privacy controls. The upcoming release of ma...
