Tim Cook Calls for US Privacy Law to Protect Citizens From Growing 'Data Industrial Complex'

[341328]

I stand with Cook on this privacy issue. Well done.

 

[fmalloy]

However, killing the headphone jack, building a tightly-controlled walled garden, charging developers a cut, creating proprietary cables and connectors and charging $$$ "licensing fees", bullying suppliers, buying up all commodity DRAM to lock out competitors, buying up competing technology then killing it, controlling music distribution and using proprietary DRM, locking out third-party playback devices and music software like Chromecast, and suing the pants off anyone who dares create a rectangular phone with icons is totally ok.
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I stand with Cook on this privacy issue. Well done.

I and stand against him and 900lb gorilla leviathan company, the richest in US history, for their gazillion other immoral business practices.

How's that?

 

[Tech198]

fighting for privacy is basally a cover for moving it onto someone else and calling the same.. The act of sharing alone proves you cannot have privacy.

And even when you try and introduce better ways to deal with it, you fail.

Just as long Apple knows they'll be fighting forever, then ok, go for it... Perhaps the laws will change at some point, but we are forever thinking that will happen with no proof it even will.

As long as governments wanna do what they do, privacy will always fail. Because they are the ones who make the laws... Not Apple. even though they wanna force better privacy because "they" do, were all just pawns on a chess set now.

Governments are kings and queens, and the rest of us are pawns waiting to be taken.

eg.. i like every time when privacy comes up we always lean on the old ways.. in this case:- 1890's. As though that means something today in this day and age ? seriously?

 

[magicschoolbus]

I saw your original post also. Where in regards to China do you feel Apple is violating its users’ privacy?

Apple uses hardware-rooted DRM to deny Chinese users the ability to install the VPN and E2E messaging apps that would allow them to avoid pervasive censorship and surveillance. Apple moved iCloud data into a PRC-controlled joint venture with unclear impacts.

That's a pretty disingenuous characterization of what @magicschoolbus stated. I'm pretty sure you know exactly what he meant as well, because you asked your question in a very leading way. No one said Apple was violating it's users privacy. For you to imply it is pretty bad form imo. Cook loves to tout privacy as a fundamental right (I agree with him), yet actively facilitates China's policies of governmental control over privacy rights of Chinese citizens.

I'm on record for being a fan of Cook as a CEO. I'm also on record for not being a fan of his moralizing that happens to have a hard ceiling of "does this affect revenue?" I genuinely think he means what he says. He believes in personal privacy. I also believe he's willing to compromise those beliefs when it comes to acquiescing to China.

 

[DNichter]

Apple uses hardware-rooted DRM to deny Chinese users the ability to install the VPN and E2E messaging apps that would allow them to avoid pervasive censorship and surveillance. Apple moved iCloud data into a PRC-controlled joint venture with unclear impacts.

Got it, yes I am aware of that. I consider that more Apple adhering to Chinese law, which they obviously need to do if they want to operate in China. They adhere to different laws in different countries. I don’t see another option there considering they are a business as well, but I’d hope they continue to work on the issue.

 

[Jyby]

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