Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap

The company confirmed an update on Monday that Hide My Email addresses “will remain” on @icloud.com, after previously saying it would move users to @private.icloud.com.

Apple did not give a reason for changing its decision, but Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, who first reported the about-face, said that Apple employees had objected to the change all along.

Earlier this year, 404 Media reported that a bug in Hide My Email revealed people’s real email addresses. Apple fixed the bug more than a year after it was first made aware that emails rejected as spam would leak the masked users’ real email addresses.